LIP Millennium Project
Your chance to take part in LIP's biggest and most exciting show
The LIP Millennium Project will be a photographic profile of the last year of the twentieth century, with an image from each day reflecting both the passage of time and the diversity of photographic ways of seeing. The photographs will reflect culturally significant dates and places in London, but also the any-day, every-day quality of life in the capital.
The complete body of work will demonstrate the range of contemporary approaches to photographic interpretation in this threshold year, with approximately fifty photographers covering a wide range of practices - including professional photographers involved in advertising and editorial as well as amateurs; the work is expected to range from fine-art constructed still life to portraiture to documentary and photojournalism.
It will utilise the whole gamut of techniques that contribute to the
contemporary photographic scene; as well as conventional photographic printing we expect also to see digitally produced work and revived historic processes.
Several photographers will be working on each day throughout the year 1999, and from their work a single image will be selected to represent that day. Exhibition of this work will commence on 1 Jan 2000 when the picture selected for 1 Jan the previous year will be put on an internet web site. Each day throughout the year 2000 a fresh image taken on the same day the previous year will be published. An exhibition of selected work from the project will be LIP's major exhibition of the year, which we hope will be shown at several venues. We also intend to publish all 365 pictures from the year on CD-ROM, and are investigating other possibilities. We are currently seeking sponsorship from a major photographic manufacturer for the project which would considerably enhance the credibility of this work, as well as possibly providing some materials and other help.
We hope that this project will be an important and exciting contribution to the Millennium celebrations.
LIP needs your support for this project - see the forms enclosed with this issue which give further details and return them as soon as possible before the closing date of 31 March. Encourage your friends to join LIP and take part too.
This project will be going ahead to form its unique view of the last year of the current Millennium - make sure your contribution is there by signing up now.
Work from photographers who have not registered as a part of the project will not be considered for use in it.
Don't miss your chance to take part - register now
Any non-members wishing to take part will need to join LIP to do so. The membership is currently £14 pa.
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