the bathroom project

No Loitering

2008-04-07T00:35:00.003-04:00

A rest stop outside of Flagstaff, AZ

nope.

2008-01-17T17:11:00.001-05:00

cats cradle, carrburo, nc.

Christmas Eve at the Castle (Peoria, AZ)

2007-12-26T12:24:00.001-05:00

my night...

2007-10-27T17:15:00.000-04:00

wasnt nearly as fun as that guy's.

mitch's tavern.
raleigh, nc.

Squiggle Can (Des Moines)

2007-09-11T12:53:00.000-04:00

Some random 'hip' pub in Des Moines.

Borders - Phoenix, AZ

2007-08-18T16:01:00.000-04:00

2007-02-21T00:14:00.000-05:00

The Coffee Roaster in Colorado Springs, CO

2007-02-15T00:57:00.000-05:00

Clovis High, Clovis NM

2006-12-16T11:55:00.000-05:00

Department Store Lovers, Raleigh NC

Dorton Arena, Raleigh, NC

2006-09-19T12:07:00.000-04:00

Urinals in the closed half of Dorton Arena

This bathroom was in the closed section of Dorton during the Rollergirl action, lit only by an exit sign, and had so little light that I could only barely see the urinals, even after my eyes adjusted.

Beach Bathroom in Port Hood, NS

2006-09-11T18:47:00.000-04:00

Public bathroom on the beach in Port Hood, Nova Scotia

My first night in Nova Scotia, I wandered around, found this bathroom at the only beach access point in Port Hood. Beautiful town. Bad-ass scary-ugly bathroom. No checkered tiles in sight.

McDonalds, somewhere in Nova Scotia, Canada

2006-09-07T00:02:00.000-04:00

McDonalds bathroom somewhere between Halifax and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Sometimes commercial bathroom designers love to imbed their garish colors within their checkered patterns.

Tryon Road Putt Putt, Raleigh, NC

2006-09-04T12:42:00.000-04:00

Tryon Road Putt Putt, Raleigh, NC.

Commercial bathroom designers love checkered patterns. They also love garish colors.

2006-08-30T23:25:00.000-04:00

Fun Center
Raleigh, NC

2006-08-14T16:41:00.000-04:00

Somewhere off I-95, South Carolina

2006-08-09T16:25:00.000-04:00

kings barcade raleigh, nc

pink lipstick

2006-08-07T09:43:00.000-04:00

Someone left the Bernard Street Tavern a good-bye kiss on a stall door in the women's restroom. Owner Larry Curtis sucumbed to pressure from a developer and sold the bar with plans to retire near the beach. The Bernard Street Tavern was one of the few neighborhood taverns left in Raleigh and closed its doors for good one Saturday night in September.

This bathroom was my catalyst for the project. It's my favorite bathroom to date.

2006-08-04T10:35:00.000-04:00

Raleigh, NC

jaba

2006-08-02T16:32:00.000-04:00

raleigh, nc

Why we do it

2006-06-13T21:07:00.000-04:00

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

Want to join

2006-06-12T15:41:00.000-04:00

are you...

inspiration.
energetic.
joyful.
crazy.
a visionary.
enjoy long walks in the bathroom with a camera.

then you should think about joining us.
email tim at [tim(dot)lytvinenko (at) gmail(dot)com]
with your name, some background info, and how you
started shooting pictures of a bathroom.

About

2006-06-11T21:13:00.000-04:00

***Yeah this is not yet. Be patient.****

The Bathroom Project emerged from Lisa Lauck's brain sometime in 2005.