What is Photo 365?

Photo 365 is a photographic and writing project which Janet (my wife) and I are embarking upon for 365 days starting around the 1st August. The exercise will be to take one photograph a day, using a Holga camera and 120 film. The film will only be wound on by half a frame so that the exposure from one shot to the next is overlapping and the photographs merge. By stitching the photos together, we hope to create a "continuous" collage of the subjects we shoot over the course of a year. Hopefully the photos will capture the events, interests, travel, moods and seasons of a year of our lives.

At the same time we will make notes of the subjects we photograph. This will be unconstrained and may include interview notes of people we photograph; or how we were feeling at the time; or what the photo represents to us; or why we chose that subject on that day; how we are feeling about the project; or maybe even some related poetry or a short story.

At the end of the 365 days we hope to exhibit our photos as a continuous print together with the various daily notes we made for each photo. I envisage that this would be wrapped around a gallery or hall or wherever we can convince someone to display the photos. As we will be shooting different subjects and obviously making separate notes, it will be interesting to see how our subjects and creative energies diverge and converge during the course of a year.

We have created a few rules for ourselves to make it interesting and ensure that we don't get lazy.

1. Only one photograph per day
2. Use a Holga 120 CFN Camera (with all its creative functionality)
3. No subject can be photographed twice over the 365 days
4. Use colour 120 film
5. Have fun
6. In true lomography spirit, don't worry about the rules

We will post the results of our project each month as an update to our progress.

Oh and if you want to start your own Photo 365 project feel free. We would love to see your photos and writing.