The project explores the excess and flow of information in the society, and how the selected and censored information formed our perception towards reality.
In London, there are always staffs distributing free underground newspapers at the entrance of each station. When passengers finish reading, they discard the newspaper at the seats, and leave them to the next passenger. The newspapers were read by many other people before coming to our hands, forming a unique web of information flow. Unlike the old days, people went to newsstand to ‘require’ for information, which they believed that they needed, nowadays, information randomly comes to us without our permission.
So, how does the information flow? And how does it influence the way we see the world?
In 100 days, I decided not to buy any newspaper, watch any TV news or browse any news on the Internet. I don’t look for information. Instead, I only read newspapers that came to me. I am an Involuntary Reader. All my perception towards the society is controlled by the media and the randomness, based on the information inside the free newspapers coming to my hands. I became an archive of the information inside the newspapers during the period.
I photographed the collected newspapers, which ‘came to me’ by chance in everyday life, and documented the time and location that we ‘met’, numbers of the pages of the newspapers, as the volume of the information, as well as the headline of the day.
