Just one link for this morning: the New York Time’s enormous collaborative photography project “A Moment In Time” launched this morning. Take some time this morning and throughout the day to click through all the (thousands of) images for a diverse portrait of the entire planet at one single moment. I was really charmed by the diversity of image types; the serious black and white, the kid snapshots, and the arms length self portraits.
The Times has always been on the cutting edge with public photo projects done for the right reasons. Often, when a large publication asks for reader pictures, it’s usually a cute, innocuous way to replace the efforts of their dwindling staffs (see: CNN iReport) or a cynical pageview generator. It’s fun to see the Times not replace the hard work of their photographers but enlist the public for a task that couldn’t be done without them. A project and idea so big it was bigger than the paper itself. This was certainly a go big or go home moment and the public (as well as the Times) delivered.
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