Disposable memories

It’s pretty rare that you see good old-fashioned disposable cameras these days, unless you’re sat at a dinner table at a wedding or you’re checking out clownfish underwater.  But there’s still something inherently fun about the little plastic click of the button, the tick-tick-tick as you wind the wheel on, and the dolphin-bothering noise the flash makes when it’s ready.

The Disposable Memory Project is an idea so beautifully simple and charming that you end up willing it to succeed, if only to restore what little faith you have left in humanity. Their manifesto is as follows:

We’re leaving disposable cameras around the world. Hopefully, people will pick them up, take a few photos and pass them on, eventually returning home – so we can tell their stories.

And that’s it. The cameras have been deposited far and wide across the globe, and so far, 5 out of 107  have been used and returned, with  Camera 47 enjoying an epic journey from Cornwall to Cambodia via Thailand. Of course, not every picture that is taken will be perfect – far from it – but that’s not the point.