Day by Day, Number One

Quentin Ball

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Readers of LipService will know about the Millennium Project (MP), 1999/2000: Day by Day and its aim to create a photographic archive of 365 images representing each day of 1999 taken within the M25 ring road of London.

Over forty LIP members are participating; each has approximately 20 days (two people are assigned to every day) when they must produce an image. There

As an MP member, I was worried how my days would materialise. The chances of my being `free' and having the kind of light I like were slim. I also have a schedule of historical happenings and events throughout this year and if chances of all three being right were unlikely. But I have to
produce an image, so my idea of a structured shoot has moved to second place.

My first scheduled day to shoot wasn't a `free' day or the `right kind of light' day. I spent the day at the family home, which is being sold, and I was cleaning it up and photographing it for a personal project. A few of those images are here.

The house is in Luton, twenty miles outside the M25, so none of those images could be used for the MP. But as the day wore on `I saw the image, no question in my mind. The problem of it being in Luton was easy to resolve; it wasn't screwed down.

I had run across two small, insignificant, even sort of `silly' items - but they both brought back a flood of childhood memories. I brought them home with me to London - well inside the M25 - and was immensely pleased with the way I captured them on film. It was an MP day.


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