Kevin Kelly went to Asia in the early 1970s having never held a pair of chopsticks.
He took a change of clothes and 500 rolls of film in his backpack, because he was, as he puts it, “on assignment” to photograph daily life and traditional culture wherever he went. He stayed for most of the decade.
He was 19 years old and going to visit a friend in Taiwan. He had some experience as a photographer but hadn’t really held much in the way of chopsticks, professionally speaking. But he was on assignment. From himself. Aged 19.
I am going to make a badge and wear it every day:
Driverless Crocodile: On Assignment.
KK was interviewed on Ralph Potts’ Deviate podcast.