During my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon, I was able to find a unique way to acquaint myself with the campus community. Having moved from Los Angeles, I found myself wanting to discover a narrative amongst my new environment- some common threads.
I decided to construct a photobooth because it is a well known and understood method of story telling, one that invokes nostalgia and intimacy. I hoped that the community would reveal itself to me through self-portrature and in return I would give them an artifact of their own making (4″x6″ print).
By the end of the project, over 400 photostrips were collected and exhibited. This visual database represents a sample of my community and serves as an artifact of a specific period in time.
independent work, 2006
Jesse Chorng, Paul Castellana
Funded by Small Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG)
Carnegie Mellon Photobooth
Carnegie Mellon Photobooth
I decided to construct a photobooth because it is a well known and understood method of story telling, one that invokes nostalgia and intimacy. I hoped that the community would reveal itself to me through self-portrature and in return I would give them an artifact of their own making (4″x6″ print).
By the end of the project, over 400 photostrips were collected and exhibited. This visual database represents a sample of my community and serves as an artifact of a specific period in time.
independent work, 2006
Jesse Chorng, Paul Castellana
Funded by Small Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG)
Hardware
+ PC computer
+ Canon PowerShot A75
+ Epson photo printer
Software
+ PHP5 script by
+ PSRemote
+ ImageMagick
Contribution
Instructables