Trigr
Year: 2007
Masters Thesis Project
ITP | NYU
I built Trigr in 2007 for my ITP thesis project.
I asked 35 people to document their lives at my command using camera phones. I sent several daily text messages asking them to “shoot!” which meant take a picture of whatever was going on in that moment. The photos were uploaded to Flickr and tagged with each user's name, date, and time of the Trigr message. I built Trigr with the Flickr API and PHP.
This project was an attempt to push the social norms of photography (ie- only photographing special moments like vacations, birthdays, holidays, beautiful things, etc.) My goal was to explore whether I could connect people to each other by asking them to share moments of their lives which were not self selected. I loved the results, as each person's daily habits, rituals and patterns were documented. The photos are not beautiful, but the lives they captured are.