Apologies for the low image quality, the event organizer accidentally saved the images as low res jpegs.

I’ve always been interested in human behavior - why we do the things we do, what triggers certain decisions etc. Unfortunately for me, I have the concentration span of a five-year-old so going to college to study behavioral psychology was never my thing.

Instead, I began using my camera and eventually technology to document patterns that I found peculiar, funny, strange, and interesting. I did a talk at Fotografiska NYC about how I use photography and technology to create awareness around our strange human behaviors. And tried to answer questions such as:

Why did model homes built for the new middle class in emerging economies all look the same?

Why do most of us only capture images of extraordinary moments when 99.9% of our lives are made up of boring, mundane ordinary moments?

Why do almost all photos on Instagram feel like variations on the same image?

What makes us capture a moment in a certain way?

What will your images look like if there was an app* that prevented you from repeating your previously captured images?

*Turns out there is one.

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