introduction...The Authentic Saga

collaborate

working together to create a body of work

co-operate•join forces•team up•band together•work together•participate•combine•ally•pool resources•put heads together

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Dena Churchman  [DC] invites you to participate with her on her collaborative project entitled 'The Authentic Saga'.  Dena started by asking a group of  10 people from diverse backgrounds 10 ?'s and then they were asked to respond to these questions with a Photograph. DC's questions were inspired by Yann Arthus Bertrand's '6 billion others' project but she also changed and added to them_ this project is her interpretation.

The candidates [so far are] are:

1. Dean Elliot, thirties, Professional Photographer
2. Devin Kerr, twenties, Interior designer
3. Elizabeth Monga, 19, Congolese refugee
4. Gary, fourties, car guard
5. Jen Mckenzie, 22, student
6. Justine Garret, 26, personal assistant
7. Kelly de Charmoy, 23, teacher in Thailand
8. Matthew Knight, 28, creative genius
9. Meryl Duffield, sixties, retired teacher
10. Nicky day, 23, Interior Designer
11. Siya and Cyril, teenagers 
12. Josh Reid, twenties, Photography student 
13. LaVerne Young, twenties, Photography student

 questions

1. Depict your country
2. What is joy?
3. Define freedom
4. Define love
5. What is your greatest dream?
6. What does money represent to you?
7. Who/what is your God?
8. What does family represent to you?
9. What is 1 thing that defines you?
10. What is 1 thing that you cannot live without?

intention

DC say that the intention of the project is to:

• Expose peoples lives creatively as a story, everyone has one but we often dismiss each other by mindsets and prejudices we have formed for ourselves sometimes unknowingly.
• Highlight the contrast and yet the similarity of each other as human beings.
• Capture life
• Inspire each other through our meanings and beliefs we have created for ourselves.
• Force self evaluation.
• Show our existence with meaning, feeling and seeing 

growing

  DC says:  

" It was originally just ten people but it's growing and I feel like I can't limit it to ten only. What I want each candidate to do is to answer a set of ten questions about life and life experiences photographically. Each candidate was offered a disposable camera or if they had their own camera to use theirs. Feedback has been positive so far, it is taking time but we are getting somewhere... The questions are simple, yet thought provoking and I believe we all have an answer to them even if we have never thought it through. Because of the lives that we live these answers have formed themselves in us".

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DC would like to expand on the collaborative aspect of this project and thus asks that  

YOU 

join in.  
Send in your images to osmosisliza@gmail.com and I will add them to relevant the post

and add your name to the list.

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