This project was born in Tuscany in August 2008, when I participated in one of David Alan Harvey’s workshops.
My aim was to find a way to proceed with my personal postcard & communicaton project while combining it with David’s workshop title “On The Road”.
The concept was to turn around the idea of tourists writing picture postcards to family and friends, by asking complete strangers, residents of a place, to write me, the tourist, a picture postcard to my place in Germany. On this occasion I would be taking a portrait of them, which I would be sending them back in return.
You can see the results of the workshop here.
The TPW workshop with David was only for a week. But he strongly advised me to contemplate the possibility of proceeding with the project. Which I did with some slight alterations.
www.astrangerswish.com
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I am presently working on an updated version of “A Stranger’s Wish”, called “Home”. It will have a more universal approach than the original Tuscany version. This larger theme will allow me to pursue this project on a long term basis.
New material will be presented later in 2010 on this and on the project’s website.
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