We also need help to translate our ‘found a camera’ page into other languages, so people who stumble across the cameras are able to understand more about the project. We have German and Spanish already, and Japanese and Chinese in the works. If you can help out translating the site into other languages, please let us know.

Camera 166 has very kindly learned how to type, and told us of its whereabouts today, via Jenniefer D’s email account:

Hi Cam166 here, Jenniefer D has given me permission to use her email address to let you know what I’ve been up to…

Well, I was born in Rhodes Harbour, Greece and promptly got on a ferry to Symi. Beautiful place it is too. Here are a few snaps of where I’ve been…I even made friends with a snorkelling cat, although she seemed half asleep so not much conversation had there. Anyway, I managed to escape from my owner and am now with another lovely lady called Gabby at a hotel called ‘iapetos village’. Gabby has promised me that she will be sending me to America!! (that’s me in the bag with Gabby - much too hot for that kind of treatment…) I do hope I get there…always wanted to see the Big Apple. Hope you like my attempt at artistic shots?

Thanks to Camera 166, follow its continuing journey over at the camera tracker page.

Sally R. has four our of cameras, and is today starting her journey to Greenland to spend a few weeks out on the ice sheets doing hydrological research. We’re going to be following her journey as far as possible, and letting you know about the cameras which get handed out.

Sally says:

I have attached a Google Earth image of our trip, we are being picked up in Kangerlussuaq, and are camping out in the middle of the white bit next to a blue bit :)

We’ve added the cameras all starting in Swansea today so you can follow the journey, and as we know more about each one, we’ll post them to the site.

Camera 159
Camera 160
Camera 161
Camera 162

You can also keep track on the blog and twitter.

Metro article about The Disposable Memory Project, originally uploaded by webponce.

Apologies for taking our time in posting this - but here is the article which recently featured in the UK newspaper The Metro. You can click through the image above and read the full version at flickr.

We’ve had a great response from people who’ve seen the article in the Metro from all around the UK, and the article featured one of the images from Camera 47.

You can see the article online also at http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/05/lose-your-camera-and-watch-it-travel-the-world.html

We will fly via Copenhagen to Greenland where we are being airlifted by helicopter to the ice sheets to camp out and do hydrological field work. Along the way we will be staying at an international scientific research station in the Arctic, and also a youth hostel for a few days at the end of the trip in Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland while we do a bit of kayaking, hiking etc. It was here that I thought there would be good opportunity to leave/pass on cameras to interesting people.

Really looking forward to hearing from Sally on her journey, and a little more about what she does over the course of the next few months.

I have read about your project in a local freesheet. Straight away I thought it is an amazing idea. People move about and see things that can be never passed onto someone else, they can never share the experience with anybody- the disposable memories…I work in a photoshop and see hundreds of photos every day; photos that have little soul and matter to few people.

Your project brings back the uniqueness of every experience captured randomly and shared with those who believe their memory will return and will be seen by many.

Thanks Domi, you sum up the project so well, and we’re really glad to have you as part of our community. Looking forward to hearing about your camera!

So, we’re asking for volunteers to act as local representatives of the project. We’d like to find people in the following areas who would be willing to act as a local address where people can send their cameras:

West Coast USA
East Coast USA
Europe
Africa
Asia
Russia
India
Australia

What would be involved?
Nothing immediately, but when a camera is finished in the same country as you, we’ll provide the person who currently holds the camera with your address. They’d drop the camera in the post to you, and then you’d send it on to us. We’ll cover all of your costs of getting the parcel to us, and you’d have our eternal gratitude!

How often do I need to go to the post office?
Very rarely. We currently have only 9 cameras out of 120 or so - its unlikely you’d need to do it any more than two or three times a year. If this changes, you can always opt-out of the project, and we’d still be friends! :)

Okay, I’m up for that
Cool - email us at hello@disposablememoryproject.org and we’ll sort out the details!

Also, if you have any ideas on how to make the project easier for people to return cameras, do let us know - we’re happy to consider all suggestions!

Camera 85 has returned home after its journey around the Morro Bay area of California.
Originally created by Matt and Kris, the camera was handed over to Mary, who seemed to take it on a drive around the area. Matt told us more about its journey:

[Mary] informed us that during the preceding week, she had gone on an adventure all up and down the central coast of California taking pictures with the disposable camera that we’d left with her some weeks before. From Cayucos to Los Osos and all parts between, she told us about all the things she’d snapped pictures of.

The Camera returned home last week, and the images are now online - if you have any comments on these images, please visit the Camera 85 page, and add your thoughts.

Camera 97 has returned home full of images from the UK. It’s journey started in Lyme Regis, after a handful of photos being taken around the bay, and then left on the Cob Wall by Graham K:

This is the sea wall made famous in the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

The camera was quickly found by Susan P, who took a number of images:

I found the camera on the Cobb, I was on holiday at the time in Dorset. The dog is Molly in the cottage where we stayed. The children are 2 of my grandchildren at home in West Yorks. The young lady is a colleague in front of our Centenary Tapestry in Horbury, well worth a viewing!! Finally the Catherdral is Wakefield Cathedral.

Moving North with Susan P, the camera found its way to RSPB Bempton Cliffs in Bridlington, North Humberside, where it was found by Robert D, and then Daphne P. who eventually returned the film home for development.

Both Graham and Susan have commented on the camera to tell us more about the images. You can have a look at the pictures and comments at the Camera 97 page. Please add a comment if you know anything about this camera’s journey.

Writing on a manual [typewriter] makes you slower in a good way, I think. You don’t revise as much, you just think more, because you know you’re going to have to retype the entire (flipping) thing. Which is a big stop on just slapping anything down and playing with it.

We think the same is true for film.