What Would You Save? - Jarrod Matthew
Let me paint you a picture of your house in flames, where your sheets on your bed are the first to go and your stereo is melting with your cd still spinning. What would you save? In that moment where you’re standing in your room with every second burning that much more of the person you were, what would you take with you? I went viral with this project asking people to be a part of this project. I received some three-hundred submissions. Suddenly my inbox became a lot like a suicide hotline full of people with broken hearts clinging to photos of their ex-lovers and music boxes from their dead grandmothers. What started as a photo installation became something a lot more important. I didn’t ask for any kind of description to go along with the photos but so many people left me one and then I was having 300 conversations at once. So many people wrote to me and humbled me in ways I can’t even explain to you. There was a girl who told me about how she slept with a teddy bear that was about her size and how she thought the size of the bear was equivalent to how long at night she could sleep without nightmares and another girl who told me she’d leave her laptop in the fire so that she could reinvent herself. This project was less about the objects than it was the people behind them, these are short stories but these are the most important stories and you wouldn’t ever know that unless you got to know these people, unless you really took a few seconds to just ask them more than just their favorite color. So what would you save?
I’d like to also thank everybody who decided to participate in this project it meant the world to me, people loved some so much they stole them off the wall.
that we want more commercial just came on and i just heard my mom mocking it and telling my dad i used to say some weird shit when i was little lol i can only imagine what came out of my mouth when i was younger
jarrodmatthew:
jarrodmatthew:
DO YOU WANT TO BE APART OF A PHOTO PROJECT?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE IN A FIRE?
If your house was on fire what would you save? Assuming your family and pets are safe, be completely materialistic and selfish and find anywhere from one to ten things you would save if your house was on fire.
take one photo of all of these objects arranged in any format you want on a clean surface like a floor. I’d prefer these photos be taken with a camera of some sort, preferably not a cell phone unless you have the option of HD on your phone but if that is all you have send them in anyway I’ll see if I can use them! Try to have some nice lighting but if you’re not a photographer on the side I am understanding of that as well. Half of the quality of this project depends on you so please take that into account.
I’m accepting these images in the file types of .JPEG and .RAW and you can send them to my email: whatwouldyousave@yahoo.com (Please also know that if you have any questions don’t hesitate to email me.) You can also submit these through tumblr if that is easier for you, I’m also even accepting these in the form of instagram photos, however if you send them through instagram please don’t apply a filter and make sure you tag it with #whatwouldyousave it also has to be ONE photo not a collage made with an app please or I can’t accept it!
Ultimately what I’m doing with the photo you submit is using it for my Image as Object Final. Over the years I have collected tons of matchbooks and so on the front of each matchbook I’m going to have an image of a house, that I will shoot, and in the inside flap of the cover will be your image of the things you wish to save should your house have caught fire. This will be a wall sculpture that will include a magnifying glass to see your images in their entirety since I’ve realized the photos will have to be shrank down quite a bit to fit the size of the matchbooks. I have collected a lot of matchbooks so please take this opportunity to be apart of my project because I will have room for hopefully everybody. If I need more matchbooks I’m up for purchasing more should that many people contribute! Think of these, as brief interviews of which will be anonymous to the audience, so feel free to photograph what you would really save. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for potentially taking the time to participate in this.
The deadline for these submissions will be April 27th. The sooner the better though please! My project is due May 1st so if you all email these on the last day I can’t guarantee you’ll be in this project and I don’t want that! Please reblog this because I’d like as many submissions as possible.
YOU GUYS ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME YOU HAVE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW AND THAT’S IT PLEASE BE APART OF THIS PROJECT!!
(via journeytotheendoftheworld)
HEY IF YOU’RE READING THIS YOU’RE PROBABLY BORED, I MEAN YOU’RE ON TUMBLR SO LET’S BE REAL SO WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS TAKE A PHOTO FOR MY PROJECT WHERE YOU PICK WHAT YOU’D SAVE IF YOUR HOUSE WAS ON FIRE THEN SUBMIT IT TO ME! Y/Y? IT’S A CHANCE FOR US TO BE BEST FRIENDS COME ON! ALSO I KNOW I WROTE A BIG SPHEAL ABOUT LIGHT AND CAMERA QUALITY BUT WHATEVER JUST SEND SOMETHING TO ME PLEASE DON’T BE INTIMIDATED!
jarrodmatthew:
DO YOU WANT TO BE APART OF A PHOTO PROJECT?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE IN A FIRE?
If your house was on fire what would you save? Assuming your family and pets are safe, be completely materialistic and selfish and find anywhere from one to ten things you would save if your house was on fire.
take one photo of all of these objects arranged in any format you want on a clean surface like a floor. I’d prefer these photos be taken with a camera of some sort, preferably not a cell phone unless you have the option of HD on your phone but if that is all you have send them in anyway I’ll see if I can use them! Try to have some nice lighting but if you’re not a photographer on the side I am understanding of that as well. Half of the quality of this project depends on you so please take that into account.
I’m accepting these images in the file types of .JPEG and .RAW and you can send them to my email: whatwouldyousave@yahoo.com (Please also know that if you have any questions don’t hesitate to email me.) You can also submit these through tumblr if that is easier for you, I’m also even accepting these in the form of instagram photos, however if you send them through instagram please don’t apply a filter and make sure you tag it with #whatwouldyousave it also has to be ONE photo not a collage made with an app please or I can’t accept it!
Ultimately what I’m doing with the photo you submit is using it for my Image as Object Final. Over the years I have collected tons of matchbooks and so on the front of each matchbook I’m going to have an image of a house, that I will shoot, and in the inside flap of the cover will be your image of the things you wish to save should your house have caught fire. This will be a wall sculpture that will include a magnifying glass to see your images in their entirety since I’ve realized the photos will have to be shrank down quite a bit to fit the size of the matchbooks. I have collected a lot of matchbooks so please take this opportunity to be apart of my project because I will have room for hopefully everybody. If I need more matchbooks I’m up for purchasing more should that many people contribute! Think of these, as brief interviews of which will be anonymous to the audience, so feel free to photograph what you would really save. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for potentially taking the time to participate in this.
The deadline for these submissions will be April 27th. The sooner the better though please! My project is due May 1st so if you all email these on the last day I can’t guarantee you’ll be in this project and I don’t want that! Please reblog this because I’d like as many submissions as possible.
YOU GUYS ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME YOU HAVE TODAY AND TOMORROW AND THAT’S IT PLEASE BE APART OF THIS PROJECT!!
(via justchangee)
jarrodmatthew:
DO YOU WANT TO BE APART OF A PHOTO PROJECT?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE IN A FIRE?
If your house was on fire what would you save? Assuming your family and pets are safe, be completely materialistic and selfish and find anywhere from one to ten things you would save if your house was on fire.
take one photo of all of these objects arranged in any format you want on a clean surface like a floor. I’d prefer these photos be taken with a camera of some sort, preferably not a cell phone unless you have the option of HD on your phone but if that is all you have send them in anyway I’ll see if I can use them! Try to have some nice lighting but if you’re not a photographer on the side I am understanding of that as well. Half of the quality of this project depends on you so please take that into account.
I’m accepting these images in the file types of .JPEG and .RAW and you can send them to my email: whatwouldyousave@yahoo.com (Please also know that if you have any questions don’t hesitate to email me.) You can also submit these through tumblr if that is easier for you, I’m also even accepting these in the form of instagram photos, however if you send them through instagram please don’t apply a filter and make sure you tag it with #whatwouldyousave it also has to be ONE photo not a collage made with an app please or I can’t accept it!
Ultimately what I’m doing with the photo you submit is using it for my Image as Object Final. Over the years I have collected tons of matchbooks and so on the front of each matchbook I’m going to have an image of a house, that I will shoot, and in the inside flap of the cover will be your image of the things you wish to save should your house have caught fire. This will be a wall sculpture that will include a magnifying glass to see your images in their entirety since I’ve realized the photos will have to be shrank down quite a bit to fit the size of the matchbooks. I have collected a lot of matchbooks so please take this opportunity to be apart of my project because I will have room for hopefully everybody. If I need more matchbooks I’m up for purchasing more should that many people contribute! Think of these, as brief interviews of which will be anonymous to the audience, so feel free to photograph what you would really save. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for potentially taking the time to participate in this.
The deadline for these submissions will be April 27th. The sooner the better though please! My project is due May 1st so if you all email these on the last day I can’t guarantee you’ll be in this project and I don’t want that! Please reblog this because I’d like as many submissions as possible.
(via overdosing-on-fame-and-fortune)
i have twenty-two submissions so far, just to keep everybody posted on where i’m at.
