52 Assignments: Experimental Photography is filled with prompts and
projects, nudges and sparks, innovations and inspirations, and--most
importantly--experiments in shooting, processing, and printing, to help
you kick your photographic habits, step out of your comfort zone and
create your own collection of experimental work. You will be briefed to
tackle modern uses for traditional film (hacking vintage film cameras,
making pinholes, playing with plastic, collecting the filters that
inspired Instagram) and traditional uses for digital (multiple
exposures, extreme speeds, timed challenges, focus tricks), as well as
lo-tech and hi-tech ways to manipulate your prints (staining prints with
water, digital effects, photocopy prints, burning photos, printing on
flexible surfaces). The rest of the journal's pages are styled for you
to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical
specifications, quotes, and even sketches and doodles, creating a record
of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend
by weekend over the course of a year, or dipped into every time you need
to bring a new edge or experimental approach to your photography.