May 18, 2005
Teenagers' MMS diaries
Postcards from Chatteris is a record of Spring 2005 made by a group of teenagers from Chatteris, a rural part Cambridgeshire in the UK, using mobile phone picture messages.
After working with professional photographer Martin Figura to sharpen up their eye for a photograph, the group were given a camera phone with pay-as-you go credit. Each person taking part had the camera phone for one week.
They were asked to send one picture message each day direct to a web site, showing something from their day-to-day lives in Chatteris. It was completely up to them what they decided to photograph and send in.
Nothing was more or less important than anything else.
The photographs were posted directly onto the site, without being edited, so that the group had to take responsibility for their own creative decisions.
At the end of one week, they passed the phone on to the next person in the chain.
The resulting photos are funny, lively, striking and most importantly capture truthful moments that a professional photographer would find it impossible to access.
Postcards From Chatteris is a camera phone project from Blink, who devised The Guardian‚s SMS poetry competition in 2001 and the influential City Poems, 2003 -2005.
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2005/05/008347.htm
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