The 4am Project vs Project Brutal25.04.11
I think I’ve finally overcome my 4am Project, Brutal Library tour jet lag enough to pull together a blog post. Wow what an event, and if I do say so myself it was a resounding success.
Photo Credit: Bounder
At 4am on Sunday April 24th, Project Brutal joined forces with the 4am Project to curate a 4am photography tour of the library. Whilst the tour gave those already won round by the library’s Brutalist charm a chance to explore the building in a new way, others have proclaimed a new found appreciation of the building since the event.
Photo Credit: Nikki Pugh
Even though this was a one off event for a select group of photographers the legacy of this is a lasting one that is currently spreading across flickr, blogs and social networks as people share the images they captured.
I am truly astounded by the quality and breadth of the images I’ve seen so far. I’ve posted a sample of them here, but urge you to take a gander at the recent 4amproject tagged images on Flickr.
Photo Credit: Nick Lockey
But then it doesn’t stop at photographs as people collected video and most interestingly sounds. To be honest archiving the sounds of the library isn’t something which occurred to me until Sam Underwood utilised the 4am tour to do so. But of course sound is so important in defining an environment and one which could easily be overlooked and lost especially when dealing with such a visually dominating space.
Photo Credit: Nikki Pugh
I’m still a little overwhelmed by all that has come out of the event, but even now it feels a little wasteful leaving the visuals, videos and soundscapes dotted and isolated across the internet, and am thinking what can happen next. So if anyone has any thoughts of ideas on what we can do with these outputs (either digitally, or even IRL) then please get in touch.
Photo Credit: Nick Lockey
Many thanks to Karen Strunks for joining forces with Project Brutal for this event and all her hard work in making it a reality. Many thanks to all those at the library who were amazingly well organised, eager and willing to make this event happen from Keith, Arthur and Danny (our security guard guides during the tour), to Lee, Barry, Brian and Teresa. And finally thanks to everyone who made the wake up call to join us and help make the event such a success.
Photo Credit: 4am Project
