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