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EPA Crowdsources Massive Photo Project

Posted by timothy on from the become-the-mayor-of-a-superfund-site dept.

coondoggie writes "Challenges from U.S. government agencies are all the rage these days and the Environmental Protection Agency today became the latest group to issue one: Take cool pictures of your surrounding environment to become part of historical record. The EPA's Locations Challenge looks to update a 40-year old agency project known as 'Documerica' which included more than 15,000 photographs of images of American environmental problems and everyday life. In the 1970s the EPA hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems for the project."

3 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. San Joaquin Valley by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about I take pictures of the once-fertile farmland that the EPA turned into a desolated desert and drove 70,000 people out of work and out of the area? Think they would highlight that one?

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  2. RTFA by Phaedrus420 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Submission fails to note that they want pictures of the same locations as the original project. That does take a lot of fun out of the comments already posted, though, so, please, carry on.

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    1. Re:RTFA by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Informative

      Submission fails to note that they want pictures of the same locations as the original project.

      Plus, if you follow through to the collection of original photos you're supposed to recreate you'll discover that they've helpfully sorted them by photographer, and not, say, location.

      Because who wouldn't want to sift through 15,000 photos organized by photographer to see if they can find one near them that they can recreate?

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