7 Shots is a photo essay project by Joshua Weiner, a Seattle based photographer.
I started 7 Shots as a way to come to grips with the 10 years of negatives and digital files that I had accumulated in the process of my photographic career. My experience has primarily been as a performance and editorial photographer so my shoots are centered around discrete events rather than a continual steam of day to day photographs.
After a number of custom build photoblogs which were a pain to update I started using Flickr and got hooked into the ease of use and enormous community. While Flickr is an excellent tool and I continue to use it for a number of reasons the firehose display of photographs in the form of a feed didn’t work with how I thought about my work.
Seven seemed like a good number of photographs to cover a topic or event. A simple rule, pick seven photos to cover an event or idea, write it up and post.