Collective Consciousness - 405 Magazine

Collective Consciousness

In this group effort sponsored by Spain’s Ministry of Culture, many hands made for amazing work: 20 photographic collectives from across Europe and Latin America were instructed to create a visual essay about the environment.

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In this group effort sponsored by Spain’s Ministry of Culture, many hands made for amazing work: 20 photographic collectives from across Europe and Latin America were instructed to create a visual essay about the environment, but given no further specifications or strictures and left to decide among themselves where to shoot, and what, and why. The resulting portfolios – 184 photographs in all – reflect not only the ecological concerns of the participants’ nations, but also the processes of teamwork and consensus-building that made the global traveling exhibit E.CO possible.