Ultimately spanning a quarter of a century, 24photography has reached its first major milestone.
24:2009 is our sixth annual show, and fittingly resides this year in Greenwich – home of GMT itself, and the benchmark for our visual exploration of the passing of each year. Every year since 2004, between the hours of midnight New Years Eve and midnight New Years Day, 24 photographers each sought to capture the essence of one hour; economic, social, environmental, political and the very personal reflections on a moment in their lives. To mark this special year, 24photography is staging two exhibitions. In Greenwich Park itself the 24 images of this year’s project are displayed as an outdoor installation, allowing the images, their metaphor and contextual meaning to become tangible and accessible to all. In the nearby Viewfinder Photography Gallery, an interim retrospective is housed showcasing all 144 images created by the 24 movement so far.

The images from this year particularly, with its major political and economic changes, hopes and fears, catalogue a record of our time and raise questions, debate and dreams of where we are and where we might be by 24:2010. This is my third year of participating. Assigned to the 9am slot I chose to record my family waking up and embarking on the first day of the new year.

The exhibition runs from 24 February to 19 March 2009.