Laura Waddington

/Diary

”In 1996, I wrote a story about a young woman, travelling around the world, sending back video letters to a friend in New York. That year, I contacted people on the internet and asked them to videotape their countries with Hi8 cameras, as if they were my protagonist. A mixture of friends and strangers in fifteen cities sent me over fifty hours of cassettes. The footage, which I received, was extremely diverse. Some people had filmed their towns for weeks, living inside my protagonist’s mind, others had recorded their daily routines, homes, family and friends … The challenge was to transform such a wide variety of images into the rhythm of one person’s journey, and eyes.”

Scattered Truth part 2a  (On The Lost Days) by Laura Waddington

Photo by Mathilde Kohl.