As part of my archive project, which was the documentation of various bathrooms around Prague and Eastern Europe, I decided to turn these mundane shots into postcards. These vary a little from the postcards shown at final review; there, I had 4 images from every place on the front of the postcards and a commentary on the back. We spoke a little about the actual composition of the shots; if I were to go back and shoot each bathroom in an almost portrait-like manner, treating each as a very particular setting to be photographically revered, I would. Treating something as boring as a bus station bathroom like material for a coffee table book speaks to that funny little line between the mundane and the so-boring-it's-interesting concept that originally interested me in CZ WCs.
Above are some examples of how these shots may turn into some material for the Boring Postcards collection. I love the gray on gray book cover. Hey I wonder why they would use Helvetica for a book about boring things. Doesn't make sense, does it.
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