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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Stranger 88

Meet Matthew Hiegle.


"I'm 19 and I've been to Israel, London, Great Britain, Spain, and Denmark. I'd love to go anywhere else; there's not a place that I can think of that I wouldn't want to go to. So, I bought my hat in London on October 1st. London was in the end of a heat wave, and I figured since it was nice, I'd go walking down Brick Lane which is full of shops and markets. It took me a couple hours, I was by myself, got lost, and I refused to ask for directions. I saw a stall in the market, and the guy was selling all types of hats. I spotted fedoras, and asked how much. I got the hat, and walked back to the place I was staying. After that, I wore this hat everywhere, even when I was in the house in my pj's. My one friend told me to take it off, because I was getting scary! I still wear it everyday! My favorite quote is, if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine by Obi-Wan Kenobi

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