Why we do it

I started shooting the insides of bathrooms while working as a staff photographer at a newspaper. When on assignment, I always dragged all of my gear into the bathroom stall with me so no one would run away with it. Finally i decided that there was no point in wasting all of the time I spent on the toilet so I started shooting the stalls. I already looked weird enough taking the camera into the bathroom so firing off a few frames wasn't much of a leap. People lose their minds in bathrooms. It is often the most outrageously decorated room in a house and the most neglected room in an office or business. People write say and do things in bathrooms that they would never write, say or do if they knew it would be recorded. As long as mankind keeps acting out in the nations restrooms, I'll keep peeing and shooting and not taking myself too seriously.
--Lisa Lauck
Raleigh, NC

The toilet could be the only thing that we all have in common together. We are all bathroom people. Skydivers spend less time airborne than in the bathroom. Some days I'm in the bathroom more than in the kitchen. But the bathroom is a neglected part of our lives. They're kept dark until it's time to be used, then the lights are off again. How many millions of pictures of houses do you see? How many magazines devoted entirely to kitchens? I want the bathroom project to be the voice of these under-appreciated proletariat class of rooms.
--Chris Reynolds
Raleigh, NC


Mine isn't done yet...
--Tim Lytvinenko
Raleigh, NC