The New Face of Vinyl: Youth's Digital Devolution
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The New Face of Vinyl: Youth's Digital Devolution is a 2011 photo documentary project that explores the vinyl revival, a newfound interest in vinyl records by youth.[1] The project was co-created by two Baldwin-Wallace College students Benjamin Meadors and Owen M. McCafferty II.[2]
The New Face of Vinyl explores in detail the cultural and social impacts of the recent rise in popularity of vinyl records by young people,[3] primarily aged 15 to 25.[4]
The two project creators Ben and Owen are scheduled to travel to New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco to photograph young record collectors and record store owners and create a narrative within a photo-documentary book in order to record what they call a "digital devolution". However, the possibility of including Los Angeles and Nashville have been proposed by the two authors.[5]
Project history
According to a recent interview[6] Ben Meadors, a Cleveland freelance photographer, was looking to expand his photographic portfolio by photographing young college students using their record players. After photographing writer and fellow Baldwin-Wallace College student Owen McCafferty, the two decided to create the project which would explore the newfound interest in vinyl and have it published in a book. The two created a project site on Kickstarter.com to collect funding which was fully funded on 31 July 2011.