2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Andy Bloxham
Friday, October 18 - 2:00PM to 2:45PM
UNCC Center City Building // 204 Lecture Hall
Facebook, Kickstarter, Evernote. Online casting calls. Emails, Dropbox, phonecalls. Google Maps, Flickr galleries, Wordpress. More Facebook. These are buta few of the data and social media tools utilized to create Shootapalooza, amassive photography road trip through North America. Originating in 2010, itspawned a follow-up in 2013, dubbed "The Sequel." Also, these trips required acamera and lights.
In this talk, I will share the work produced from these trips. In addition, I willdiscuss how to overcome logistical hurdles of a combined 12,000 milestravelled. In 2010, I turned a three-day drive from Louisiana to Maine into athree-week photographic journey. I set out to build fictional, constructedphotographs with actors and models scattered across the Midwest andNortheastern coast. I drove 4-8 hours each day, photographed, woke up,photographed, and repeat. In my free time, I built a gallery of portraits. In 2013, Ifollowed with an even bigger challenge. Over 50 days, I drove from Louisiana toCalifornia, up the western coast, east across Canada, the Great Lake states,and finally to Maine. This trip was over twice the size of the original. It led to anentirely new exhibit of fictional work, a more ambitious portrait project, andspecial visiting talks along the travels.
An incredibly large and diverse group of people made all of this work possible.The power of crowd funding and social media gave me the ability to staynetworked with this web of individuals that spanned two countries, all of whomwere connected through their inclusion in this project. A blog transcribed theevents, every day, for every mishap, discovery, and adventure. Exhibitslaunched from the imagery created on two trips fueled by passion, storytelling,camaraderie, and a lot of caffeine.
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