Villages seen by the week, a project by photographer Kristel Schneider, is a photographic record of 17 villages in the Val D’Allier. Each village will be photographically recorded, at different times of the day. Kristel will walk en talk around in the different villages to capture images that represent each different village. The project will start in the beginning of March 2009.

Kristel Schneider is Dutch and a freelance photographer and communication advisor. She moved to the Auvergne one year ago to focus more on photography. To get her work known by a bigger audience in the Auvergne she is developing some photography projects. One of the projects is Villages seen by the week.  The villages that will be part of the project are based on the existing brochure 17 villages à découvrir dans le lembron published by Communauté de Communes Lembron Val d’Allier. The main goal of this project is to promote the different villages through the eye of the camera with input from local people.

 ‘The question I like to have answered is how people will react on a one-week photographer’ says Kristel Schneider and what is in their eyes the image that represent there village’. 

An overview of the weekly record Villages seen by the week, will be shown on the Kristel Schneider Photography website (www.kristelschneiderphotography.com) and regularly images are published on her Photo Blog so that people can give there reactions and feedback. At the end of the project Kristel Schneider will organize an exposition of the best images from all villages. Location and opening date will be published later.