philly

I've joined a really cool long term photographic project here in Philly. It's called the Philadelphia Grid Project. It's a project started by Philadelphia photog Robert Cocozza. I saw a posting for it on one of the Philly flickr groups and I sent an email to get some more info.

The basic premise of the project is listed in this post:

The Philadelphia Grid Project is a long term project which will attempt to photographically document the city of Philadelphia. Each month we will set out, individually, to photograph a pre-assigned area of the city. The subject matter is of your choosing. The only requirement: the photograph must be made within a pre-assigned geographic location. The following month, the group will assemble with the results of it's' efforts and select one image per photographer to be added to the archives.
The "grid concept" was born in Portland, OR and operates under the title of the Portland Grid Project. I learned about it from a good friend and member M Bruce Hall. I immediately thought, what a fantastic way to organize the photographic documentation of a city.

I found out about the project at the end of December and wasn't able to get to the location for that month, but I shot the January 2008 assignment earlier this month. It's roughly the area between Spring Garden and Lehigh Ave and the Schuylkill and Broad. I've put up a flickr set for my images for the project and this tag of the initial edit and I think the shot above is my favorite from the outing [Brown/Ridge]. I printed out a group of 4"x6" to better evaluate the shots and then decided to print 5 8"x12" prints to bring (I'm bringing 4 of the 5) to the first meeting on Tuesday night.

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