Calling all MIMA members: Participate in the Polling Place Photo Project
Got a camera? (You’re nodding yes.) Planning to vote? (Of course you are.)
Participate in the Polling Place Photo Project, a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism, sponsored by The New York Times, AIGA, and Design Observer.
All you have to do is look through your lens and document democracy. Simply capture your local voting experience (abiding, of course, by state and local laws), post your photos, and become part of this nationwide, non-partisan project. The goal is to capture primaries, caucuses, and the general election from the people’s point of view.
Here’s how to participate. And here are some recent photos from the Super Tuesday Minnesota caucuses:
Minneapolis
“Democratic caucus line”
Photograph by Lewis Weinberg
“The convener shouts out directions”
Photograph by Pat Carney
Saint Paul
“Caucus chaos”
Photograph by Heidi Sandstad
“Post-caucus quiet”
Photograph by Arah Bahn
How about it MIMA members? Capture your user experience. Look through your viewfinder. Point and shoot. This is everything you applaud in a open-source initiative — photographs of the people, by the people, for the people.
