Analog photo booths are a quintessential, yet vanishing, part of the mall experience. Closing the curtain of a photo booth creates a private space for self-reflection and self-representation in the transitory areas of commercial spaces. For Picture Yourself, Olivia Pintos-Lopez will use the photo booth on the floor above The West Wing to photograph participants and record a three-minute aural portrait as the images develop. The strip of photos will be exhibited as a singular superimposed image. The sound portraits will be presented as anonymous stories that the viewer can listen in on, disconnected from a particular portrait. The resulting portraits will be exhibited in The West Wing and will be added to over the two weeks as more portraits of mall visitors are collected.
If you would like to participate in Picture Yourself come on either Wednesday the 1st or Wednesday the 8th of December from 10am to 2pm and take a self-portrait in the photo booth and record your anonymous aural portrait while the film develops. The photo booth is situated on the 3rd floor of Melbourne Central at the top of the food court escalators on the corner of Swanston and Latrobe. If you can’t make it during these recording times you can take your own photo strip and leave it at West Wing to be reconfigured for the exhibition. All photo booth portraits and the later Picture Yourself image will be yours to keep.

For more information and enquiries about participation please contact oliviapintoslopez@gmail.com
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This project has been generously supported by SPEAKR BOX.