Kahani Ploessl, Josh Igwe, Aljumaine Gayle

10 000 Photos is an experience that takes photos across two or more browsers in real-time. Multiple computers are arranged to create a physical space, where users interact by clicking the mouse on a single computer to trigger a universal camera function. These images are stored locally in an array, where each new click adds a successive photograph, arranged side by side into a series. Note that each computer can only access the photos it takes itself. Keeping this coding limitation in mind, the arrangement of monitors bridges the divide; each laptop captures the same instant within the space at different angles.

10 000 Photos is inspired by Eijkelboom’s photographic work, as archived in "People of the Twenty-First Century". 10 000 Photos embodies Eijkelboom’s core themes of identity through serialized imagery. In our installation, we heighten this experience by pulling the users into the series, one they have the power to create themselves. Users simultaneously play the photographer and the subject, teetering between the two in displays that invite reflection. Each computer displays different perspectives in the same way Eijkelboom identifies the similarities between strangers.