HILARY WHITE
The Reciprocity Project
I created The Reciprocity Project; A Visual Conversation as a way to stay connected with other photographers during the pandemic. In Los Angeles we’ve been in lockdown since March 2020 and I launched the project on Instagram so it could be shared with a virtual audience.
Each week I posted a photograph of my work that would evoke a response from my two collaborators, Amantha Starr and Yulia Morris, with a special thanks to Mark Hanauer who was an earlier contributor.
They reciprocated by posting their own images which brought me joy and surprise. Then I made a triptych of our three images, and like chapters in a book when sequenced together, patterns, stories and infinite possibilities emerged. We curated a mix of contemporary and archival photographs that responded to light, shape, color, content and mood in one another’s posts.
The Reciprocity Project is an on-going project that will be made into a book this year, as we continue to share experiences from our lives during the pandemic and its aftermath.
An earlier series of The Reciprocity Project; A Visual Conversation which I made during the spring of 2020 is included in a recently published book Saturday Morning: Notes from Today for Tomorrow.
Hilary White