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One Year, One Family →
Tom Peters once wrote that ” If you’re not spending at least 70% of your time working on projects, creating projects, or organizing your tasks into projects, you are sadly living in the past. Today you have to think, breathe, act, and work in projects.”
A huge portion of the people I follow and admire on Twitter has been a result of me stumbling upon something they’ve created in a form of an ongoing project yet some of which has developed into something much bigger than they ever expected.
Having projects is an exceptional way to getting yourself noticed even more and the added benefit comes in that it gives you braggables rights in people seeing that you have genuine interest and enthusiasm in what you’ve dedicated time and effort in accomplishing. For that very reason, I take pleasure in viewing Darrah Parker’s ongoing One Year, One Family project -
In this year-long project, I visit one family once a month and photograph whatever it is they are doing that day. There’s no staging and very little planning ahead. We just pick a day each month and I show up with my camera. My goal is to to photograph real “slices of life” in an effort to find the beauty in the ordinary and the extraordinary in our own everyday lives.
