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Here’s a slide show of the images we’ve gotten so far for the American Values Project. The project has it’s own website now, too, where you can submit new photos directly through that site. We’re developing a whole new set of plans for this project (and managing to find some money for it as well!)…

New Yorkers: How do you make one of the world’s largest cities into a community? First, you show its residents what they have in common. New York is a city of over 8 million people, and each one of them values something. The particulars of what they value may differ dramatically– sometimes even conflict dramatically–…

For those of you who have been following the development of my “American Values” project, I have exciting news: WE’RE TAKING IT TO NEW YORK CITY! On May 7th, curator Tally Beck (of Tally Beck Contemporary) and I will exhibit a slightly-more-limited-in-scope version of the American Values project that we’re calling “New York Values” at…

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to make another (this time, URGENT) call for submissions to the American Values project. The image to your left is a collage of some of the photos I’ve already recieved. (Go ahead and click on the image. It’s a pretty impressive collection, if I…

Well, it looks like my “American Values” project might be about to get a new life. If you don’t already know, I put out a call on this blog several weeks back asking people to snap a photo of themselves naming something that they hold as a value and then to send me their images….

A couple of weeks ago, I put out a call here on the blog for help with a video project I wanted to put together on “American Values.” I asked people to send me a photograph of themselves naming something that they valued. It was a simple idea, initially conceived as an interesting little side…