Untitled by Scott Eiden

Hot Shots Cara Phillips and Scott Eiden both have work featured in Graphic Intersections, a collaborative online photography project presented by The Exposure Project. The series of photographs is based on the Surrealist game The Exquisite Corpse, a visual version of the old camp game, telephone. If you aren't familiar, here's a rundown of how it works:

The first photographer made a photograph, which was subsequently forwarded to the second in line. The 2nd then, based solely on their own visual, emotional, intellectual or philosophical response, in turn made photographs in artistic reaction to the one they were given. The artists involved were not given any written material to accompany the photograph, nor did they know whose image they were responding to. This was designed to propagate chance, or as the Surrealist's put it, exploit "the mystique of accident."

The system behind the creation of the images leads you to examine each frame in the context of the photographs before it, after it, and the series as a whole. In the age of the Internet our three-second attention spans can lead us to make snap judgments about what is and isn't interesting. Collaborative work like this, that demands slow consideration and unpacking, is not only a joy to behold but a triumph!

You can check out Graphic Intersections online.

Congratulations to the Hot Shots and to all the photographers included in the project:
Ben Alper, Anastasia Cazabon, Thomas Damgaard, Scott Eiden, Grant Ernhart, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Alan George, Hee Jin Kang, Drew Kelly, Michael Marcelle, Chris Mottalini, Ed Panar, Bradley Peters, Cara Phillips, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Irina Rozovsky, Brea Souders, Jane Tam and Grant Willing.