in 2011, i tried to keep wewerestrangers going. i decided to only ask strangers whom i met naturally. i was left feeling that asking them to take part in the project sort of debased our organic encounter.<\/p>\n
with that, in 2012, i’m going back to having a daily excuse. some meetings will be more meaningful than others, but hey, so it goes, right?<\/p>\n
in 2012, i’ll try again.
\nin 2012, i’ll talk with hundreds of strangers.
\nin 2012, i’ll practice my craft.
\nin 2012, i’ll continue to try to figure out why i so badly need to see.
\nin 2012, i’ll continue to try to figure out why i so badly need strangers.
\nin 2012, i’ll leave myself the liberty to change the project midway if i figure something out.<\/p>\n
on the left, you’ll see a self-portait a stranger took, on the right, you’ll see the portrait i took in response.<\/p>\n
on holidays, i may ask loved ones to step in in lieu of a stranger.<\/p>\n
many of my strangers will also be shared with jaclyn turner<\/a> who has her own portrait project over at aportraiteveryday.com<\/a>. all on her iphone. it’s awesome. you should check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" in 2011, i tried to keep wewerestrangers going. i decided to only ask strangers whom i met naturally. i was left feeling that asking them to take part in the project sort of debased our organic encounter. with that, in 2012, i’m going back to having a daily excuse. some meetings will be more meaningful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wewerestrangers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}