About Photobombing

Photobombing involves distributing photographs into the urban environment and recording the responses, reactions or results of this activity. It is about engaging people (maybe you) in a physically disconnected - yet theoretically connected - manner.  Photobombing uses photographs as a stimulus and the internet as a medium.

What actually happens?

  1. An artist puts photographs in public places
  2. A person, finds the photograph and sees a label on the back asking that the person does takes a new photograph, that includes the original and emails it to the artist
  3. A record of where the photographs were put is kept on this website
  4. A record of all the new photographs sent in by those that find the photobombs is kept on this website

These 4 steps make up Photobombing.

The term was first coined in the summer of 2007, producing these results, but since then has also been applied to the act of “ruining other peoples photographs” - see this link for just one example.