The doorbells of florence project
21 September 2004. Inspired by .
I think I mentioned that games were afoot... well the first has begun.
Nearly a year ago, I was wondering around Florence and found myself unnecessarily fascinated by a single aspect of that Renaissance city of incredible art and breathtaking architecture: the doorbells.
I couldn't get them out of my head. They were everywhere - varied, some shining bronze, others old plastic, names of people I'd never meet, some Italian and permanent, others foreign and on scraps of paper to signify a short visit. So I took my newly purchased shiny camera and starting photographing any (and there were a lot) that caught my eye during an afternoon's stroll around the city. Some of them came out rather well.
I'm now releasing them individually through free photo-sharer Flickr, accompanying each with new short fiction inspired by the bell in question.
The first is up already and can be found here. The username to search for in the future is andrewlos - or you can subscribe to the RSS feed here.
All thoughts etc gratefully received, either here or in Flickr. The genre of Flicktion (copyright Nick Richards) has begun.