Obsessive Photo Projects
- 20 Sites n Years (1973–present) Tom Phillips photographs 20 South London sites annually, in order, at the same time of day. [added 2008 January 06]
- Invincible Cities (1977–present) Along the same lines as above, Camilo Jose Vergara has been documenting America's ghettos by photographing the built environment in
Harlem, the South Bronx, Chicago, Newark and other places since the 1970's. [added 2008 January 06]
- ID400 (1998?) Tomoko Sawada gets in the photo booth for 400 different personas, including her own. [her site]
- First Day (1999 january–present) First Day Photography will sell you a photo of the sunrise on your special day.
- Eat 22 (2001 March–2002 March) Ellie Harrison documents everything she eats for one full year.
- Get In My Belly! (2002 October–present) Adam Seifer documents everything (not really) he eats.
Pasta-Log Yet another documentation of food, this time, only pasta, and framed beautifully.
- American Mile Markers Matt Frondorf drives across the USA (New York to San Fran) taking a photo every mile.
- 30fpd: a day, a week, a year (2003 January 08–present) Aaron Ximm is making a movie of his life, one second at a time. [added 2008 January 06]
- Doors I Touched Today (1999 June 03) Fluxus Midwest researches the action of doors and knobs.
- Every Object Interaction (2003 September–present) Alberto Frigo photographs and catalogues every object he interects with. It seems like he has almost replaced one of his hands with a camera. At the time he sent me this link, there were 23'308 images entered into the database.
- 365 Polaroids (1997) Andy Walker presents a year's worth of polaroid self-portraits.
- One a Day Project (2002) Aimee Sealfon interacts with, then photographs, 365 people.
- The Shower Project (1999) Brian Benson's successful (?) attempt to shower with 100 different women.
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