Montclair Magazine Fall 2016 | Page 22

FIRST PERSON Creating Across Continents Francisco Diaz, co-founder of the International Collaboration Project FACEBOOK’S GLOBAL REACH Eight and a half years ago, I started taking disparate images and putting them together to make a single image. I have a background in painting, and it gave me similar control. A photographer friend kept pushing me to go onto Facebook, and gave me the names of 10 photographers who’d work well with me; one of them was Deb Young. Her landscapes at Manakau Harbor [near Auckland] blew me away. I said “Hey, can we kind of play with them?” CREATIVE APPLICATIONS With digital cameras, we can be each other’s assistants. Either Deb or I can photograph people, landscapes and objects while connected to the compu