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24 Hours: 24 Photos

The 6th annual 24 Photography exhibition comes to Greenwich with a series of photographs from the first day of the year.

24:2009 Exhibition at Greenwich Park

Since 2004, 24 photographers have been capturing the New Year in 24 hours between midnight New Year's Eve and midnight New Year's Day.

The project, this year entitled 24:2009, aims to run for 24 years and marks reaching its quarter milestone by staging two exhibitions at the home of world time and the Prime Meridian - Greenwich.

24 Photography is hosting an outdoor installation in Greenwich Park itself featuring all 24 photos from New Year's Day. At the nearby Viewfinder Photography Gallery all 144 images since the start of the project will be on display.

You can view all of the images from 2009 by using the link below.

• Gallery: 24 Photography >

History

Claire Spreadbury, at the time a photography student at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, came up with the idea to capture the first day of the new year in 2004 as part of a photography project. Claire, and 23 fellow postgraduate students, were each allocated one hour to capture one photo.

24:2009 Photographs, Pavillion Cafe

Claire told BBC London: “24 was devised when we were studying photography at Central Saint Martins. We wanted to put on a group show that allowed us complete creative freedom whilst having a theme to hold it all together. There were 24 of us in our class and so I came up with the idea of documenting 24 hours in a day and New Year's Eve/Day made it more interesting."

"After the success of the first show we decided that we all wanted to continue with the project and so agreed to do it for 24 years. Even after just six years it is interesting to see how the photographer's work has changed and how the accumulating body of work is becoming a fascinating document of social history.”

The idea has evolved and will now span 24 years in total. Nearly half the original group are still involved in the project with new photographers joining each year.

It will be interesting to see how the group, project and society itself has changed from one new year until the next. The project will end in 2027.

24:2009

Outdoor Installation
Greenwich Park
Adjacent to The Pavilion Tea House, near the Royal Observatory.
Use the Greenwich Park map link for the location

Viewfinder Photography Gallery
Linear House
Peyton Place
Greenwich
London, SE10 8RS

24:2009 is open to the public from 24 February 2009 until 19 March 2009