External Collab - finding collaborators + a project

For my external collaboration, I wanted to work with people I hadn't worked with before. After getting back in contact with someone that I knew from college, I thought she would be perfect to work with. Angela is a fashion photographer, but recently dropped out of university and wants to keep her creativity flowing. I reached out to her about collaborating.

During this exchange, I also reached out to Pippa, another girl I went to college with who was doing a project about IBD on her illustration course. She needed people to contact her who suffered from a stomach/bowel condition, who could input into her project. I helped her out as I suffer from IBS, and I answered some questions for her. This gave me an idea for a project - to create something on the subject of IBS as both Angie and I suffer with it. This link between us all was something we were very excited about as we have personal ties into the project and could create something great as we all can input something different. Luckily, Pippa was open to collaborating on the project too, so we got the ball rolling.

We created a WhatsApp group chat to discuss the project and plan meetings and keep in contact. We felt this was the easiest method of communication. We planned to meet up on the 29th December to discuss the project and what we wanted to achieve with it.