Face Booth

In 2000, photographer Alistair Morrison founded Time to Reflect – a UNICEF project which invited hundreds of international stars and dignitaries, from Tom Cruise and Kylie Minogue to Hilary Clinton and Desmond Tutu, to take their self portraits in a photo booth and include an inspirational handwritten message with their picture.The response was phenomenal and a host of celebrities, musicians, authors, sportsmen and world leaders took part, creating a unique collection of ‘passport photographs’ featuring some of the greatest cultural icons of the past 50 years. A decade on from the project’s inception, Sky Arts will follow Alistair as he attempts to bring back some of the original names, as well as some fresh faces, for a stunning new charity exhibition which features, among others, Jude Law, Jeremy Irons, Billy Connolly, Jonathan Pryce, Sven Goran Eriksson and Mark Foster. http://www.skyarts.co.uk/art-design/article/faA

After watching the program i found myself thinking that these ideas are great but you really have to be at a certain level in order to have the contacts and respect of top celebrities wanting you to take their photo. This idea would only be successful using celebrities because if you put a photoboth in the middle of london and gt random people off the street then sure you would have some interesting results but not ones that people would want to buy in a book form. Top photographers get to a point where it doesnt matter whether their taking the photos or not, its just whether their ideas involve people within the public eye.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/tvandradiovideo/6912213/Face-Booth-Jude-Law.html This is a short video of the process, there are others on this page