Having been somewhat released from the notion that the white wall gallery was the only way to display photography, I may well still do this, I dont hate it, I just never considered alternatives before, what I would really like to do would be take the final images to some of the locations where one of the donor images was actually from.
The dummy publication led to a wholly unexpected outcome in that the images actually look great as newsprint, a commercial poster print process whilst different to newsprint is equally low resolution and the paper stock albeit coated to enable some weather resistance is similar.
For me this would be perfect, it could even be part of a public engagement experiment where I can truly test the theory about people not being able to recognise their own country when taken out of context. However there are very obvious logistical and financial hurdles to overcome with exhibiting in this way, realistically its probably unlikely I can do this but I am still keen on the idea of taking the images out into the world.
Another possible route could be to take images into different environments closer to home, natural, built or both. Rephotographing them in situ for a web based gallery or even retransmitting them via CCTV which i’m currently experimenting with now to see how viable it might be.
This of course is not a new idea, inSite running in 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000–1, and 2005 ran at various sites in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California
Originally founded to address a perceived lack of cultural institutions in San Diego, with its second iteration in 1994, “inSITE” expanded to locations spanning the area immediately around the U.S.-Mexico border with artists including Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, and Nari Ward, Curated by Jessica Bradley, Olivier Debroise, Ivo Mesquita and Sally Yard placed images and installations into the environments they aimed to confront.
Reference
https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/art_market/10_exhibitions_that_have_changed_the_course_of_contemporary_art-52142