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’Geolocation: Have My Location?,’ 2011, Archival Pigment Print, 24  x 20 inches

About the Exhibition

Staniar Gallery is partnering with the Digital Humanities Working Group to present this  collaborative project by photographers and who use publicly available GPS coordinates from Twitter messages to find and photograph the location where the Tweet originated. The pictures are then presented with the text that inspired them to create poetic pairings, which range from sorrowful to humorous, confessional to cheeky. The project has garnered much attention for its exploration of contemporary cultural dichotomies such as public/private, real/virtual, analog/digital. has been widely exhibited and featured in such publications as Wired Magazine, the New York Times Lens Blog, VICE Magazine, Discover Magazine, The Washington Post, and Utne Reader.