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The one hour project

When you need to deliver at short notice.

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Marcel Borgstijn
Jul 04, 2023
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This week's newsletter is a little different from the usual ones.

That's because I've been very busy and to round off a busy week, I celebrated my 15th year at the company yesterday. My colleagues surprised me - as I had forgotten that it was already 15 years - with champagne and a sort of scavenger hunt through our towers (we have 6 towers in total...).

They also know that I like to work on long-term projects, so they gave me an hour to come up with a series of photos taken with my mobile phone, in black and white of course. They had to reflect my feelings about the company in these 15 years of work.

Working on projects for 1 to 1.5 years is a bit different from delivering in an hour. But I did it, and although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I think I did a good job of showing a series that tells a story, my story.

So I wanted to show photos that would somehow ring a bell for my colleagues and at the same time make sense to them, even if they did not hear my side of the …

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