In this group photography project, we are working with a local map that has been divided up into square miles. Each month a square is chosen at random to designate an area to be photographed by the group members over the course of the following month.

Sometimes it is a familar neighborhood but often it is an obscure location that we would otherwise have no reason to be in. It is surprising how much we don't run into each other considering how often we come back with pictures of the same location.

Some members take a more documentary approach and try to explore and represent neighborhoods. Others use the geographic constraint as an excuse to get out and just take pictures. Of anything. As long as I was standing inside the square while the picture was taken, it counts, right?

As time goes on we start to see the landscape through each other's eyes and look forward to these imagined photos at the end of the month.

The Eugene Grid Project started in 2008 and will take roughly five years to complete. Eugene Grid Project hosted its first show in the fall of 2009 at DIVA in downtown Eugene.