Alan's 'Jumping Project'
Alan Dransfield is travelling the world asking people to jump for his camera. Most do, he says. Here is the introduction to his story which appears in today's Life section of the Bangkok Post.
Alan Dransfield is travelling the world asking people to jump for his camera. Most do, he says. Here is the introduction to his story which appears in today's Life section of the Bangkok Post.
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Allan Dransfield’s Jumping Project has him travelling the world, photographing people leaping through the air. SOMCHAI POOMLARD
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A real-life Globe-hopper
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Allan Dransfield would gladly eat leftover pizza on a restaurant table he walks past. He would knock on the door of a total stranger and ask if he could spend the night. He says people tend to overthink when it comes to travelling, and “technically, you can travel for free”.
“You just have to follow your instincts, have faith in people and you can do anything, go anywhere. People are good intrinsically; people will look after you.”
You can send in your own jumping shots at www.jumpingproject.com and follow Allan Dransfield’s journey at www.yesmonassa.com.
Last June the 32-year-old Englishman quit his job as a car designer in Italy after working for 10 years, and set out travelling. So far he has visited more than 20 countries, and in each he asks people to jump for him. The “Jumping Project” is a social experiment that began from Dransfield’s curiosity as to whether “serious people” would agree if he asked them to jump.
Photo by Alan Dransfield.
“When you travel the world you meet a lot of incredible people [and are] exposed to new cultures,” says Dransfield, about his previous experience during various short trips he took while he was employed. “And when I returned back to Italy I would have this mentality that I want to interact and talk to people, but there wasn’t so much communication in the streets with normal people. And as I walked down the street I would start talking to people and smile and people would look at me like I was strange and I was kind of a bit down about this. So I decided to make some kind of project based on it to open people up from a social point of view.”
Photo by Alan Dransfield.
With a camera in his hands, he simply asks: “Excuse me, can you jump for me?”
“I ask one simple question and most people say yes. And everybody smiles and opens up. I try to capture the moment when they switch from being serious to smiling, being expressive and open. To jump seems to encapsulate the idea quite well. Jumping represents what I want to do [and allows] people to express themselves. It’s great because a lot of the time people thank me and go like, ‘Aw, my morning was so boring’ and they walk away laughing.”
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