Head on over to PhotoChaining.com if you want to see a wicked global project. People are saving pictures to cheap memory cards and then leave these cards in all sorts of public places for other people to find and view once they’re home.

The  concept is rather simple. You buy a cheap memory card, put it in your digital camera and take some authentic pictures. Once you’ve chosen what to keep on the card, you name it and leave it behind somewhere in a public place with a note explaining the concept. The person who finds the memory card then has to take some pictures himself (using the same card) and drop it elsewhere once he’s finished. He should also post the images he found on the card to PhotoChaining.com so everyone can see them and include a tip with the whereabouts of the memory card in order that other people can find it and contribute their creations.

So to wrap up this piece about PhotoChaining:

1. Take funny/original/humoristic/creative photos with your own camera and use a cheap memory card

2. Write a note in which you explain in few words the PhotoChaining concept to the “finder” of it and provide a name for the memory card (check PhotoChaining to ensure that the name has not already been used)

3. Put the memory card and the note in a transparent plastic bag

4. Leave the plastic bag in a public place

5. Help other people to find your memory card by giving them indications on the website

Over on facebook there’s also a group for the PhotoChaining project. It’s a rather simple concept and the success of it totally depends on the people who find the cards off course. I recon with summer in sight I’ll buy myself a couple of cheap cards and start a chain of my own in Ghent…

Tagged: Ghent, memory cards, photochaining, Photography