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What is a "boring photo?" Join photographer and Studios member Martin Adolfsson for this talk on the merits of the mundane in photography. 

"This talk takes the audience on a somewhat absurd journey from the suburbs of Bangkok, to a digital ritual for thousands of strangers and how I re-discovered the power of photography by putting away my own camera."

Bio:
Martin Adolfsson is a photographer and artist working at the intersection of photography/technology and behavior. By disguising as a potential homebuyer Adolfsson used his camera to document the search for identity among the middle class in eight emerging economies resulting in the book Suburbia Gone Wild with foreword by Joseph Grima. 

He co-created the anti-social media app minutiae which makes it possible for thousands of strangers around the world to participate in a daily ritual of documenting their own ordinary moments. Most recently Adolfsson created Threshold, a camera app that uses Machine Learning to detect visual patterns we might not be aware of.

Adolfsson is also a commercial photographer and director with clients including Monocle, Facebook, US Army, Hyatt, BMW, Conde Nast Traveler. His projects have been featured in Wired, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Hyperallergic to name a few. 
www.insanelittleprojects.com

Lunch will be served.

February 12, 2020 |  12:00PM– 1:30PM

https://boringphotos.splashthat.com