Medway & Millis August 2018

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HISTORY
continued from page 1
– the town of Medway as a place
they live, or work, or somehow
define themselves.
“We Are Medway” is an
ongoing living yearbook of
Medway, Massachusetts. It was
started last month, on July 1,
2018, by Medway photographer
Tim Rice, who will take the project
where it wants to go.
“This has been in my head
for just under 20 years,” says
Medway native and well-known
photographer Tim Rice, who
began the “We Are Medway”
photo blog at the beginning of
the month, featuring his neighbor
Betty Ann Balboni.
“She’s 89 years old, and used
to run the auction in town,” says
Rice, who knew her when he
owned a photo lab in town. Even
back then, he says, when he sold
his store and was trying to decide
what to do, he imagined a mobile
photo lab. “I had this concept to
just go out to people’s houses and
take pictures of them, and then
to go out to my van and print
them out for them,” says Rice.
Although that idea didn’t
come to fruition, says Rice, the
notion of taking glimpses of
Medway and its people never left
his mind.
“I love the history of Medway,”
says Rice, who as a teenager
in town read historical
books about the town written by
Francis Donovan, available to
read in the town’s library. “The
Revolutionary War is what it is,
but why Lincoln Street is named
Lincoln Street is (personal),” says
Rice, who envisioned “getting a
book next to this book.”
“What it comes down to is I’m
still that teenage kid,” says Rice,
who has a private photography
business and has recently come
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on board as the photographer for
the Town of Medway’s website.
His new blog, he says, documents
“just who we are, a living yearbook
of who we are right now. I
see all these photos around town
as being the history of Medway
– me capturing what we look like
now, so that 100 years from now
we can look back on it. ‘We Are
Medway’ is just an extension of
what I’m already doing by taking
pictures of the town—now
I’m taking pictures of the town’s
people.”
The project is open to everyone
and anyone that is connected
to Medway, as a resident, worker
or volunteer. “I wouldn’t shy
away from anybody,” says the
photographer. “I’m honored that
anyone wants to be part of it,”
says Rice, who already has built
a following for a daily project
he began on October 1, 2009,
his birthday, with his new Nikon
D80, the Daily Pic. He has now
amassed over 3200 daily photos,
without missing a day, much to
the delight of his audience on his
website and Facebook.
“I just start things and they
keep going,” says Rice. “It is
what it is,” he explains, of letting
each project come to life on
its own natural accord. “We Are
Medway” got “an overwhelming
response in the first few days,” he
says, and he knew, thanks to how
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many people got in touch with
him in the first 48 hours, that
“this is going to be such a great
project. I don’t know where it’s
going to go, but we can just see
it. I’m looking forward to seeing
where it’s going to go, and I’m
just doing it.”
Participants are asked to
come to Rice’s studio to sit for
the photo, although the artist will
make a few exceptions in certain
situations. The photo shoot, he
says, takes just a few minutes, and
a brief conversation leads to the
special shot.
“Honestly, what it comes
down to, is I talk to them. I take
one or two pictures and then get
one that gets their personality.”
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involved in the project. All is voluntary.
“Medway has always supported
my stuff. The community
has been nothing but supportive
of what I do,” says Rice. “This is
part of giving back.”
If you would like to follow
the project or be part of it,
visit http://timricephoto.com/
wearemedway (you can also visit
timricephoto.com and find “We
Are Medway” in the menu to the
left of the home page.
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