Please come and visit us in Soho Square for this year's exhibition.
We are now in the third decade of our journey and we'd like you to join us for our anniversary in the heart of Soho. We are excited to announce that Yvonne de Rosa, one of the group’s founding members, and founder and art director of Magazzini Fotografie gallery in Naples, will be curating our 21st anniversary show, which runs for 24 days from Saturday 24 February.
Soho Square, Soho, London W1. Saturday 24.2.24 – Monday 18.3.24 Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square
There are places I’ll remember
Now in our third decade, we are racing towards our final goal, with the end of the project looming large. Gone are fears of not making it through such an epic project, for although the series edges ever closer to its denouement, we have grown stronger and more established with time.
This year’s exhibition features captivating photographs that reflect the diversity, resilience, and beauty inherent in the journey from one year to the next. Each image tells a unique story and contributes to the larger narrative of the collective's 24-year journey. The exhibition encourages attendees to discover the nuanced connections between the visual artistry on display and the cultural references that have shaped our experiences.
The series captures the essence of our human journey and promises to be a visual journey that transcends the boundaries of time, inviting visitors to explore the interplay between art, culture and the inexorable passage of the years. The changing of a year so often brings a sense of hope, and this year is no different, be that in personal moments of reunion, celebration, and reflection.
Andrea Barbiroli - Looking for 2024
Anita Zenhofer – Flying low
Rachel Hain – Platform party
Robert Scott – Broken patterns
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – White House Station
Helen Chambers – World peace is coming… (otherwise we’re screwed!)
Claire Spreadbury – Neon symbolism
Jonathan Straight – Don’t drink and drive
Elena Bianca Zagari – Cecilia e Carla
Candida Jones – Endorphins
Enrico Vietti – Hibernate
Wendy Aldiss – Blowing the cobwebs away
Sabes Sugunasabesan – A prayer for peace
Teri Pengilley – Who knows what the future holds?
Spei – An unexpected visitor
Ali Waggie – Trapped
Colin Blackstock – Moonlight mile
Amy Adams – Caged Xmas
Sarah Lucy Brown – The light beyond light
Nicky Townsend – All that glitters is not gold
Gini May – Relentless
David Mazza – Congestion, City Beach
Robin Maurice Barr – Todmorden bus stop
Brendan Delaney – Clearing up
Roaring Twenties
Now at the end of our second decade, we are roaring into our twenties. Gone are any fears of not making it through such an epic project, for although the series edges ever closer to its denouement, we have grown stronger and more established with time.
The series this year reflects the essence of our human journey; a cost of living crisis, the fallout and attempt to recover from a pandemic, its vast influence on personal, societal and political health and our shared ambition to find light within the darkness. The changing of a year so often brings a sense of hope, and this year is no different, be that in the opening up of a world where travel restrictions are gradually falling away or in the personal moments of reunion, celebration, and reflection.
Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Candida Jones - Under His Eye
Rachel Hain - Looking forward 365 feet and to 365 days ahead
Robert Scott - Florida Gatored Community
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann - 3am blur
Helen Chambers - The road between them
Claire Spreadbury - Soothing Sea
Charlotte Bond - Docks at dawn
Elena Bianca Zagari - Sveva’s New Year Resolutions
Yvonne De Rosa - Always Under the Same Stars
Enrico Vietti - New Year's resolution
Wendy Aldiss - Winter tasks
Sabes Saguna - Louis
Teri Pengilley - Finding Light
Spei - Living together
Ali Waggie - Her Beloved
Colin Blackstock - Part of you
Amy Adams - Into the blue
Sarah Lucy Brown - All We Need is Love
Nicky Townsend - Juliet
Gini May - The universal language
David Mazza - Western Australia
Rue Kruger - Introverts
Brendan Delaney - Golders Green Bus Station
Andrea Barbiroli - Après Party
Drawing towards its second decade, the series this year reflects the essence of our human journey, the consequences of a universal mutating disease, its vast influence on personal, societal and political health and our shared ambition to find light within the darkness.
Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
Rachel Hain - On the stroke of midnight
Amy Adams — Inn on the Wye
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann — I can be…
Helen Chambers — The walk home
Claire Spreadbury — End of the universe
Gini May — If it’s not broke don’t fix it
Brunel Johnson — Untitled
Yvonne de Rosa — 7am
Enrico Vietti — Young rocker
Wendy Aldiss — A whole new year
Sabes Sugunasabesan — Pond
Terri Pengilley — New year, new hope
Spei — Never stop working
Ali Waggie — Once more unto the breach
Colin Blackstock — When there are clouds in the sky
Ray Malcom — Cape Verde
Sarah Lucy Brown — Beautiful calm
Nicky Townsend — Confinement
Amanda Eatwell — Not so shiny now
David Mazza — Midsummer night kayaking
Rue Kreuger — Reaching
Brendan Delaney — The last blast furnace on Teeside
Alan Gignoux — The first dinner
Candida Jones — Just five more minutes
Now three-quarters of the way into our journey and we continue to go from strength to strength combining personal reflections, as well as the views and trends in society globally, of our life and times. Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Amy Adams – The light at the end of the rainbow
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Nothing more to say
Helen Chambers – Black Lives Matter
Claire Spreadbury – Blue
Gini May – Fragile
Roland Ramanan – Big O
Yvonne De Rosa – Untitled
Enrico Vietti – Contentious skiing
Wendy Aldiss – Main road into Oxford
Sabes Sugunasabesan – Continental breakfast
Teri Pengilley – 4.6 degrees
Spei – Don't breathe … breathe again … repeat
Ali Waggie – Slipping away
Colin Blackstock – Turn, turn, turn
Ray Malcolm – Untitled
Sarah Lucy Brown – Hope
Nicky Townsend – 1.5m apart. Still banned.
Amanda Eatwell – Everybody inside
David Mazza – After the storm
Rue Kruger – Capetown
Brendan Delaney – Covent Garden
Wayne Crichlow – Lost in this moment
Candida Jones – A remainer’s solace
Rachel Hain – Closing time
Now more than two-thirds of the way into our journey and we continue to go from strength to strength combining personal reflections, as well as the views and trends in society globally, of our life and times. Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – We’ve seen better days
We are experiencing a period of profound change and upheaval; social, political and environmental. Against this backdrop, my son and wife help to anchor me against this state of flux and uncertainty.
Helen Chambers – A hallway with doors
Claire Spreadbury – While angels sleep
Gini May Standard-Sheader - In a new light
Roland Ramanan – Fractured dreams
Experimental dance music in east London. The fading minutes of my allotted time. Those entranced don’t see me. What are they dreaming of? Their futures so fractured at the dawn of a decade. Almost total darkness with only brief strobes of light; I try to make a picture. Any picture.
Yvonne De Rosa – Elena Bianca
Enrico Vietti – Empty Orchestra
A morning arises
Wooly silence leaves place to
New resolutions
(Anonymous Haiku)
Wendy Aldiss – Western philosophy
Sabes Sugunasabesan – The ambulance
At the top end of the road near the hospital a heavy medical chair lay by the roadside. At the bottom end of the road, by the park, was this broken fence. All the beams were broken. I was puzzled as to how, who or what forced the damage. While I contemplated that, an ambulance rushed past towards the hospital.
Toni Ward – Bridge over troubled water
2019 was another year of divisive themes with Brexit, the big climate change debate and rising political tensions to name a few. I wanted to start 2020 with a positive symbol, one that by it’s very own design stands for stability and connectivity, but one that can also be used as a symbol for progress - leaving old ways behind and heading in a new direction.
Spei – New day, new year, new path
New Year’s day is not just a day. For many, it is the beginning of a new story, the starting point of a new path for which they are looking…
Ali Waggie – To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. Although climate change doesn’t wait for lazy gardeners…
Colin Blackstock – A vision softly creeping
Discarded plastic spectacles, a remnant of the night before, perch above a defiant yet defeated idea. The politics of waste global and domestic, that will both take years if not decades to resolve, set against a backdrop of St Paul's and the City. The vision that was planted in my brain, still remains.
Ray Malcolm – Untitled
Sarah Lucy Brown – Dancing into the decade
Over the years, we have made it a tradition to head to the beach in Suffolk on New Year’s Day. 2020 was no exception, with a picnic filled with joy and laughter the perfect way to mark the start of a new decade.
Nicola Townsend – Age is just a number (#87)
Teri Pengilley – Gaslight
gaslight, v: transitive: to attempt to make one believe they going insane (as by subjecting that person to a series of experiences that have no rational explanation)
One of the iconic gas holders on Regent’s Canal, whose existence is threatened by a housing development. The canal path is lit up green by a passing “Boris bike”, so-called from the rental bikes' introduction during his time as London Mayor. Boris Johnson is now British Prime Minister, and leading the UK out of the EU.
David Mazza – Untitled
A mob of larger-than-life-sized kangaroos emblazoned with lights were the chosen Christmas decorations of Perth City Council. At the same time there have been massive bushfires across Australia. A poignant reminder of the devastating impact of bushfires on our landscape and how extraordinary the wildlife is that inhabits our country.
Rue Kruger Ronel – Untitled
Brendan Delaney – Fresh for the new year
Most of the docks, warehouses, and food manufacture of London’s Bankside have left, but some still remain. Lurking at the heart of Borough Market a bakery is busy, light and steam-filled, as the New Year’s bread is prepared, all around silent and dark, shuttered.
Stewart Weir – Poster art protests
Michael Goldrei – The lynch mob
Perhaps due to the post-Christmas period, or the faceless figures and devil-like antlers, this scene emits an atmosphere of evil. The woman in black leads the group in a forced moment for the camera, while the red curtain gives the feeling it could be the work of a certain film & TV director.
Rachel Hain – Great Scott reflects
The multi-billion pound redevelopment of Nine Elms, Battersea is currently London's largest mega-project, incorporating thousands of new apartments, offices and shops together with a new underground station. Sir Gilbert Scott's iconic Power Station is rapidly being surrounded by tightly packed new accommodation blocks which both restrict views and create new reflections.
Amy Adams – The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File was a favourite of Mum’s. She died in May 2019 but it felt like she was in the room watching it with us. The film explores themes of control and brainwashing - are these themes as relevant today as they were in 1965?
Now two-thirds of the way into our journey and we continue to go from strength to strength combining personal reflections, as well as the views and trends in society globally, of our life and times. Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Helen Chambers – Looking to London
New Year's Eve on Primrose Hill was cold, but the atmosphere was warm. Being part the crowd reminded me of the things I love most about London. A diverse group of strangers coming together to share an experience.
Claire Spreadbury – Last chance, last hope
Gini May Standard-Sheader – Looking back
Roland Ramanan – Scooter girls
Change is constant in India. Children are brought up riding around on their fathers’ scooters but I was impressed with how many women are increasingly doing it for themselves; looking the future squarely in the face.
Yvonne De Rosa – Napoli at home
Enrico Vietti – Vanilla
Sleepy afternoon in Queenstown (NZ), waiting for the next client.
Wendy Aldiss – Looking Out
Sabes Sugunasabesan – Silenced
Parliament has caused the need for repair of itself and the nation. Democracy under refurbishment. A transition to a promised stronger Britain. The refurbishment has silenced the bell from chiming. The clock is still ticking. The bell will chime again.
Toni Ward - Brothers in Arms
Spei - Crime Scene
Every year, millions of Christmas trees become a member of the family for a few days and then are thrown away. This is one excess of western life, where even living beings are treated without consideration. "Crime scene" is a metaphor of our ecological schizophrenia, where the majority call to engage but act the opposite way.
Ali Waggie - Fatberg, ahoy!
Colin Blackstock - The River
Ray Malcom – Temple
Sarah Lucy Brown - Katy and Ramona
Nicky Willcock - Shattered Dreams
A father found, a pilgrimage for a childhood lost
A jubilant return finds only a dissolving society, broken glass, revelry
No longer a place for a child.
A law abiding citizen in a country where law is now a purchasable commodity
Where innocent families are slaughtered in the name of political ‘re-balance’
A ‘balance’ that has been mutated by a broken telephone, information, economy, values
and judicial system
Shattered dreams of a returning prodigal son ...
Jeff Moore – Untitled
David Mazza - Regeneration
Teri Pengilley - Eid
Eid Aljazairli, 24, could not swim when he fled Syria in 2016, and nearly drowned when his boat capsized in the Mediterranean. Inspired by YouTube footage of Michael Phelps that he saw in his London hostel, Eid began learning to swim. Within six months he could clock 43 seconds for the 50-metre freestyle, and is now hoping to compete in a refugee team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But despite his positivity for the year ahead, Eid still feels great sadness thinking of the family he had to leave behind in Syria.
Brendan Delaney – Leicester Square
People are recovering from the night before, out exercising, maybe a final bit of shopping. However, by early evening the usual bustle of bars and restaurants is absent, their staff given the day off. Only the tourists and street entertainers remain, patrolling Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, enjoying the roads still closed after the New Year parade.
Emma Kindred – Beach. Clean.
Ioana Marinca – Tenison Court
With social media growing in popularity, architecture or even art installations have been designed with Instagram in mind. Little spaces the artist/designer hopes people will flock to and share in vast numbers on hashtags. Walking down Regent Street on my own, I spotted this light installation and waited for the right person to walk by.
Rachel Hain – Don’t Give Up
I was moved by the words on the wall behind this man residing on a corner of 7th Avenue as I walked through midtown. There are more homeless in the city’s shelters now than at any time since the Great Depression. This excludes numbers sleeping rough which are hard to count accurately. African-American and Latino New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness.
Candida Jones - My Beautiful Launderette
2018 Brexit Britain. Dyson moves his business to Singapore but what about the rest of us?
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Runaway
Fifteen years into the project and it continues to go from strength to strength combining personal reflections, as well as the views and trends in society globally, of our life and times. Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Claire Spreadbury – Let the music play on
Gini May Standard-Sheader - Two faced
Algy Sharman - Legs
Yvonne De Rosa - Portrait of me as a pineapple
Enrico Vietti - Wonderful tonight
It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair
And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight"
(Eric Clapton)
Wendy Aldiss - Closing time
Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi - The commuter
Anca Iancu on her way to work as a visual merchandiser at Debenhams, straight after a New Year’s Eve party. As a fashion designer at the beginning of her career creating her own work is very important, but with fewer opportunities for young people she has to work hard to find her place. In this double exposure Anca wears a coat she has designed and created.
Toni Ward - Pastel coloured promises (Cromer beach)
For the majority of my life we have celebrated New Year’s on the beach by the sea. There is a feeling of childhood familiarity, instant calm and peace for me as soon as I hear the waves washing onto the sand. There couldn’t be a more positive start to the new year than a stunningly colourful sunrise full of exciting promises for the year ahead.
Spei - Cloud factory
I have been fascinated for the last 10 years about the fantasy idea of cloud factories, and still I am… So I could not resist shooting that crazy potash plant that seems to produce clouds and send them to populate the sky. Thann/France.
Ali Waggie - Local victory
The campaign to reopen the accessible entrances to Buckhurst Hill underground station has been ongoing since 2014. Transport for London confirmed this would happen in June 2017 and work began on 1 January 2018.
Colin Blackstock - Upside down
From the stillness of nearby Hyde Park, a walk along Piccadilly reveals the many preparations for the New Year's day parade. On a journey towards Piccadilly Circus I'm halfway there, and I'm just soaking up the magic in the air when I start to see the world a little differently in the reflections of one of the musical instruments.
James Fletcher - Looks cold out there
There were few people out on the streets of Ipswich on New Year's day. The image asks a lot of questions: Who is this man? What is he thinking? Why is he alone?
The image provokes different stories about the subject which change depending upon the background you choose to give him.
Sarah Lucy Brown - New friends
During a New Year’s day walk along Aldeburgh beach, our cockapoo puppy Dudley loved exploring the traditional fishing boats, once a common sight along our coast.
But overfishing, large factory trawlers and strict quotas have led to the near extinction of the east coast fishing industry, with just a handful of small, inshore fishing boats remaining to remind us of a key part of our coastal history.
Nicky Willcock - T minus 111 days
On 22 April 2018 Cape Town will be the first major city in the modern world to run out of running drinking water. An apocalyptic world of survival that seemed possible only in the movies looks ever more likely.
A prisoner rightfully became a president, when will this president rightfully become a prisoner?
More than 300,000 people in Britain – equivalent to one in every 200 – are officially recorded as homeless or living in inadequate homes, bed and breakfast rooms, or hostels. That is an increase of 13,000 over the past year.
Shelter said the figures were an underestimate as they did not include people trapped in so-called “hidden homelessness”, who have nowhere to live but are in single homeless hostels or social services housing, while 4,500 were rough sleeping.
David Mazza - Stairway to …
The architecture of the city centre of Perth, Western Australia has changed dramatically over the past 10 years following a once in a generation mining boom. Even the oldest Anglican Church in
the City invested.
Teri Pengilley - Westminster Bridge
Nine months after a terror attack which left six people dead and over 50 injured, Westminster bridge remains popular with tourists and Londoners alike.
We are always going somewhere. We feel alive if we just keep moving.
Emma Kindred - It'll be OK, Google
Three days before Christmas, my closest friend lost her husband to cancer. Two of these beautiful children lost their dad. We spent new year’s day together; a walk along the beach, some chips, scooters, then back to mine for tea. While we prepared dinner in the kitchen,
discussing the forthcoming funeral plans, the children found pure magic and momentary distraction in asking Google what a baby giraffe is called.
A train passes above Borough Market - the site of a terrible terrorist attack in June 2017.
Carole Evans - Toddler intervention
Every so often I come across things that have been put out of place, or have been interfered with, by my three-year-old. This particular intervention seemed an appropriate metaphor for Sign of the Times; the world (even more so now) is full of the unexpected.
Candida Jones - Tooting's answer to the Emerald city
Tooting Common, alone, on a dark winter's night, can be exhilarating, magical and daunting. I wish I hadn't felt the need to check behind me every minute or two.
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann - Bare cans
This pile of beer cans was in a telephone box and I’m not sure whether it’s New Year’s excess or from the many people with dependency problems that I see on my way to and from work teaching in Whitechapel, where I've picked up some teenage slang, including ‘bare’, meaning ‘a lot’.
Helen Chambers - Which door to choose?
Fourteen years into the project and it continues to go from strength to strength combining personal reflections, as well as the views and trends in society globally, of our life and times. Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Claudia Leisinger – Remnants of the Great North Wood
Algy Sharman – Fox
A new year’s walk in Kilburn.
Yvonne De Rosa – Naples
Enrico Vietti – Darling(s) Harbour
Darling Harbour, Sydney. Grey sky, hangover feeling. Many partied all night, many kept on partying during the day. Hard to tell if some were coming back from a party or were freshly dressed up for the next one.
Wendy Aldiss – Night Food
An essential service for late-night revellers
Celine Marchbank – A leap in the dark
2017 will see formal negotiations to leave the European Union. Brexit leads us onto an unknown, unwise path into the dark and it worries me greatly. This event will alter our history as a country for the rest of our lives and for all future generations to come. I therefore felt it was important to reference this in my image for the year.
Toni Ward – Turn the Tide
Given the political surprises that 2016 produced I felt that Turn the Tide summed up last year, but at the same time also reflects the anticipation of what new developments and directions lie ahead on the horizon for 2017
Spei – Yet another day
While the first day of the calendar has a special meaning for a lot of us, life goes on, mechanically, as another day. Walking with Audrey during the first hours of daylight, around a pond near Chantilly (France UTC+1), we were surprised to discover this frozen boar, almost merged with the surrounding nature as if it was already part of the ground
Ali Waggie – Red sky in the morning
Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
After 12 tumultuous months of political change, growing immigration crisis, war, loss and upheaval perhaps we should heed the old superstitions?
Colin Blackstock – Diamonds and pearls
Are we a modern nation? We hold on to identities, values, traditions, and history as if they have a value. Must we be dependent on them? At the turning of the year, you can be looking back or looking forward, but still the days seem the same. Which one of us is right if we always fight?
James Fletcher – Lonely
Landguard Peninsula, Felixstowe. Today I felt a little sad and lonely. I am surprised that in a world that is constantly busy and bustling, where we can have constant interaction with others, either in person or via technology one can still feel isolated.
Sarah Lucy Brown – As one
Nicky Willcock – After the storm. Waiting for new wings
Regeneration. The force of a flash flood cleanses; refreshes. But what is left? How many cells remain to be rebuilt? Are we less but stronger? Or less and just of different form? Is it ever as complete as the first time we die within ourselves? Or is the renewal proportionate to the severity of the storm? And the strength of the wings proportionate to the wait?
Jeff Moore – New Year's Day parade
It’s a slightly strange affair. It’s mainly made up of marching bands and troupes of cheerleaders from the US, and watched on the route by tourists, or live on TV in America. Most people in the UK don’t really have much to do with it.
David Mazza – Women's cricket at the Waca
Women’s cricket has finally gathered momentum in Australia and this summer has focused on promoting the game to a future generation of players. My eight year old daughter has taken a particular interest in the changing landscape of a traditional game. Hopefully equal pay is around the corner.
Adele-Caitlin, 16, a young carer since she was two years old, suffered bullying throughout school. Over two thirds of young carers are bullied. Now she campaigns through her mother’s website caitlinswish.com, supported by Carers Trust.
“I do get down sometimes and it’s not an easy life, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love who I look after”, she says. In November 2016 she was diagnosed with EDS Type III, the same incurable condition that has caused her mother Victoria's condition.
Jonathan Goldberg – One nil to the Arsenal
My nephew is looking on in awe at a freak goal, scored by a back heal volley and later nicknamed the Scorpion. It was the bright spark in an otherwise pedestrian game. On a personal level it provided the opportunity for me to bond during an afternoon out with my brother and his kids, who were visiting from the USA.
Gini May Standard-Sheader – Every little helps
Understanding the socio-political realities of our post-truth world at the dawn of 2017 is becoming increasingly difficult, with politicians and conglomerates feeding us so-called “alternative facts” that suit them. Let this empty and abandoned trolley be a small reminder of the truth of our situation. Every little helps
Sarah Lee – 6pm southbound, Regent Street
Where just hours ago tens of thousands of revellers were making their way towards Trafalgar Square, Westminster and the Thames, a day later the street is very quiet. The majority of people out in the cold damp early evening seem to be be tourists getting the most out of every moment of their time in the city. London resonates with a subdued air of melancholy and exhaustion. It feels like an echo of an ending rather than the surge of energy one might expect for a new beginning. But this is a main artery through a city that changes constantly. This sense of things being over is an illusion, a new year has begun and everything is moving forward whatever our feelings on the matter might be.
Tim Kavanagh – Information layers
They scurry around for a master unseen
Live for places they’ve never been
Caught in a frame for an eighth of a second
Digital fingers of their light have beckoned
When they have gone it will remain
Strange little ants always doing the same
©timkavanagh2017
Candida Jones – New Road Ahead
2016 was defined by political upheaval, Brexit, Trump and a refugee crisis larger than any since WW2. For the world, 2017 is indeed a New Road Ahead.
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Thank goodness for the NHS
My son was born last October early in the morning on a grey autumnal day and received excellent care from superb staff in a clean, modern hospital. The NHS needs to remain free at the point of use and open to all.
Helen Chambers – Regeneration
2016 news articles overwhelmed us with obituaries for dearly beloved icons, one after the other. Social media sites claimed that there were more celebrity deaths than usual. Was 2016 a particularly fateful year or was it just our dark media wielding its grim scythe? This New Year’s promise of hope and new beginnings is exceptionally welcome.
Thirteen years into the project and it continues to go from strength to strength, combining personal reflections, as well as the views and trends in society globally, of our life and times. Although the images are disjointed in subject and location, all are inexorably linked by the progression of time which we hope will take the viewer on a visual journey through the first day of the New Year hour-by-hour.
You can read more about each photographer by clicking the link on their name beneath their image.
Algy Sharman – The Chasing Dragon
This shot was taken in Kilburn, northwest London. I’m still not sure if they’re together or total strangers.
Yvonne De Rosa – Lubiana's new year
Camera fame, Xmas lights and lots of sparkle are framing Lubiana's welcome to the new year. Happy 2016 Elli!
Wendy Aldiss – New Year Nonsense
I took this photography outside the Story Museum in Oxford. New Year can be quite a strange time of year and I wanted to reflect this in my image. The Nonsense phone box in full celebratory mode seemed the ideal choice.
Anne Hislop – Bhavhani Matha
Bhavhani Matha is a name given to devotees of Durga, the Indian goddess of power and strength. During the period of pilgrimage to the Vijayawada Kanaka Durga temple women traditionally wear red saris, devotional beads, and practice a sattvic (pure) lifestyle. This includes a simple diet of foods that are fresh, juicy, light, and nourishing. Jayvani's 'crazy cracks' are a departure from the sattvic lifestyle – a sign of the times.
Otis Edwin – Waiting
As the late night partygoers enter and leave the station huddled against the biting wind, one man waits for a call.
Toni Ward – New Year's resolution
"We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling." – Neil LaBute
Spei – From the balcony
Just arrived in Dominican Republic from France, it was really hard to wait for midnight. After the party, this was the last view from my balcony. Time seems frozen, but the neon testifies that we have reached 2016.
Ali Waggie – New Route Home
Exploring how the familiar can look so very different from an alternate angle. I’ve walked home west across this bridge for over 30 years. I now live on its east side. I see the sunrise instead of the sunset.
Colin Blackstock – A sense of enormous well-being
As New Year's Day dawns over the Long Water and the Serpentine, between Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, life carries on much like any other day. Some joggers go round and round, others take a route straight through the park, one man feeds the pigeons, swans and ducks. I've become the habitual voyeur, visiting daily, though seldom this early. The park, life in the park, gives me a sense of enormous well-being.
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James Fletcher – Beach Party
My work evolves around people and human nature. It is not just about beautiful imagery, but depth of thought and capturing the essence of circumstance. The work has meaning or a message that is subtle and not obvious at first glance. The viewer will explore the work and discover further depth of the subjects that have been photographed.
Sarah Lucy Brown – The Morning After The Night Before
The morning after the night before, my friends thought what better to do on a cool, crisp, New Year's Day than dress as Star Wars characters and take a gentle walk along the river Deben. A voyage into the unknown.
Nicky Willcock – So Near & Yet So Far
An unbreakable force,
An unhealable curse,
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Enrico Vietti – 99 Luftballons
The picture has been taken in Hanoi, Vietnam: due to seven hours time difference, it is night already, while midday in Europe. The city is buzzing and balloon vendors add colors and a touch of light–mindedness to the traffic jammed roads.
David Mazza – Cousins and the Cubbyhouse
Summer holidays in Australia is the best time to catch up with cousins. Now the kids are older play time is climbing trees, making cubby houses and getting very dirty.
Toby Smith – Lee Beach
Taken on Lee Beach in Devon, this area of outstanding natural beauty is famous for its unique, exposed geology and abundance of fossils. Tides and powerful wave action erode and shape the jagged coastline. At low water the tidal pools drain through the sediments chipped from the cliffs depositing shale into the cracks and crevices.
Guy Bell – Threat High
People gather in London to celebrate by watching the parade – they are watched over by heavily armed police – still a relatively rare site on our streets. Though jovial, it is not clear whether the police presence is calming or adds to a general sense of fear and unease by reminding us of the reported threat.
Gini May Standard-Sheader – Untitled
We are more likely to associate the colour orange with the sun drenched streets of Seville, or perhaps with Frank O’Hara’s lover in his orange shirt, amid the flouresent orange tulips, bathed in the warm 4 o’clock light of New York city, not with the snow-laden mountains of Saint Gervais in January. But here it is: a plume of orange smoke against a monochrome sky.
Teri Pengilley – Kate
Kate shelters in a dry robe after starting her year with a swim in the sea at Southend, Essex. Thanks to a mild winter the water temperature was a relatively mild 8 degrees, but a biting south to south-easterly wind made the day feel bitterly cold. Outdoor swimming has seen a phenomenal surge in the UK over the last year, with enthusiasts proclaiming its benefits for both physical and mental well-being.
Tim Kavanagh – Nick
Nick has a well earned cup of tea in a Southend Cafe after a New Years day swim in the freezing ocean.
Candida Jones – Selfie
For the first time, instead of a portrait of one of my children, I offer a selfie. Well, it is 2016.
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Modern Atavism. Part 2
Atavism: the tendency to revert to ancestral type. As the older generation in my family passes away I see similarities in myself with those that came before me and feel myself being drawn to my ancestral past.
Helen Chambers – Great Eastern Street
I love East London’s street art scene. The walls near my flat change frequently but this mural on Great Eastern Street has survived for a while. When I walk past it always makes me smile and, this year, the words seem more poignant than ever.
Claire Spreadbury – Vapour
I like to use the 24 project to question social norms. People used to be able to smoke everywhere, then the smokers where restricted to hanging around outside bars etc. And now, once again they are allowed indoors with the invention of the electronic vapour cigarette. What will the future hold, what will our vices be and where will we enjoy them?
Claudia Leisinger – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Soon it would be midnight, my time was almost up. Exhausted from talking to so many strangers I was very much slowing down. Then I saw them on the tube platform at Leicester Square station. At that moment it felt like someone pressed the fast-forward button. I asked to take their portrait, they nodded, I pressed the shutter, the train came, I jumped in and they were gone.
Yvonne De Rosa – My first photo of the year
Algy Sharman – Superhero
This shot was taken in a cafe near a spooky industrial estate outside Stockholm. This guy and his buddy were out skateboarding. He was waiting for a kebab and so was I.
Alex Christofides – Untitled
Christoph Grothgar – Off-centre … but this universe is for you
Gini May Standard-Sheader – Vietnam, Hanoi 11am
Hanoi authorities are considering women-only bus routes to tackle sexual harassment and stealing on public transport, beginning a pilot scheme in January 2015. I wonder who this young man is. Perhaps he is waiting patiently to pick up his wife/partner, or just waiting.
Spei – Dancing with death
Ali Waggie – Celestial being
Every night this constellation stands above us. He watches from on high, what has he seen, heard? Powerless to help as mankind destroys the earth below.
Colin Blackstock – The restless cries
Hours earlier cheers and joyous voices welcomed a new year with champagne toasts and fireworks, the remnants of which line the banks of the river. Billingsgate is silent now, but what crepuscular cries echo through the ages here…
Rachel Sato-Banks – Lust
Early mornings of New Year's Days past have always been filled with an unsettling combination of guilt and hope for me. The only memory of the previous evening's escapades is a faint thumping of the temple and a blurry vision of garish glitter. I like to call this special time of the year 'New Year's Lust'.
Sarah Lucy Brown – Mono no aware
Mono no aware lies at the heart of classical Japanese literature and poetry, meaning a refined sensitivity toward the sorrowful and transient nature of beauty and a gentle sadness at their passing – epitomised by the cherry blossom. They explode in beauty after winter for only a few days before dying. It was this fleeting moment in time – caused by an unseasonably warm winter – that I wanted to capture as the New Year blossomed into life.
Nicky Willcock – The house where Matt lived
An impregnable wall.
Windowless, featureless, inaccessible.
A haven from reality?
Or a self inflicted fortress?
Healing or affirming?
Enabling or activating?
Enrico Vietti – Asian Xmas
Christmas time in Asia is a good example of the (often tacky) mix between different cultures. Even with temperatures of 20 degrees, you can see Santa Claus in the streets and Christmas trees are everywhere, although they tend to be integrated in some Asian context. This picture was taken in Hoi An, Vietnam, a city well known for its tailors and lanterns.
David Mazza – Decade
Ten years ago we were married on our farm in Western Australia. New Years 2015 day became a beautiful summer evening and the kids wanted to go for a walk up to Wedding Hill.
Pierre Mansiet – Modern day hero
Guy Bell – I Love You
New Year’s Day offers people the chance to consider changes as well as to relax, as it is a day off. I went to Winter Wonderland, in Hyde Park, to gauge the mood. I was expecting to witness a sea of miserable people trudging around and being ripped off but, instead, saw a more cheery view of life – how simple and sometimes corny things (such as fairground rides, soft toys, balloons and hotdogs) can entertain and genuinely lift the mood.
Lola Nichols – On the edge
If I jump will I know how to swim? If I walk in will I catch a chill? If I breathe deep will I be renewed or will I drown? Is the only way to be reborn, to allow the soul to die?
Charlotte Duval – Untitled
Connected. Everywhere. All the time. Every day.
Anthony Curran – Alone
New Year's Day is a busy time, the sales are on in Oxford Street and the area is packed with people. Despite this there is still plenty of opportunity for people to be isolated. New technology can make this more bearable, whilst at the same time make it more likely.
Candida Jones – Hangover
What epitomises the aesthetics of New Year’s Day better than an image of a hangover? Is Lizard Thinker wondering why he drank so much last night? Or pontificating on modern life and all its short-comings?
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Intolerance
I took this photo in response to the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has been increasingly noticeable in the UK and Europe recently. At first it seemed that Romanians were the target; but the Charlie Hebdo atrocity took things to a new level, it just became a blame game; blame the immigrants, blame the Muslims, blame the Jews, blame somebody, for something. To my mind inclusiveness and diversity are things to be celebrated, not demonized.
Helen Chambers – Quietways and superhighways
This picture was taken crossing London Fields on the way back from seeing friends … the day after the night before. The park felt quiet compared to usual, but it struck me that there is always a hum in London and the constant signs of people interacting, no matter what day of the year.
Claire Spreadbury – Untitled
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…
Gavin Morris – Bag of bands
Bracelets, rings, watches, hair bunches, broaches and myriad other uses, Loom Bands have been ubiquitous this year. They have occupied many spare hours, caused hilarity and tears in almost equal measure, creative, community oriented and democratic. Optimistic.
Gas Esilarante – Iceland 11pm
All was homely in Iceland
Justina Burnett – Defeat
Alex Christofides – Untitled
Otis Edwin – I hope 2014 is your best year ever!
Wendy Aldiss – Night shift
Lola Nichols – Pulling in opposite directions
Ali Waggie – De-luminating
Colin Blackstock – Spinning the wheel
Lydia Evans – Rise
Sarah Lucy Brown – Whispers of the Tide
Nicky Willcock – More fuel for the fire
Enrico Vietti – Saturated sweeties
David Mazza – Is it a camera? Is it a computer game? It’s Super iPhone!
Pierre Mansiet – Happy New Hip!
Guy Bell – Excess
Julien Buckley – No wood for the trees
Christoph Grothgar – Untitled
Angela Zair – Finding time
Candida Jones – Journey Home
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Spend what you don't have
24:2014 Helen Chambers – Relocating
Claire Spreadbury – Regeneration
Ildikó Buckley – Wednesday 9pm
Yvonne De Rosa – Kids I am going to take a picture, show me some fun!
Alexander Kenney – Accident scene
24:2013 Beth Colocci – Moonrise
24:2013 Christoph Grothgar – Untitled
24:2013 Guy Bell – Expectation
24:2013 Alys Tomlinson – The Avenue
24:2013 Ali Waggie – Sign of the times
24:2013 Colin Blackstock – In paradise
24:2013 Lydia Evans – Time and tide
24:2013 Sarah Lucy Brown – Into the light
24:2013 Nicky Willcock – Opportunity not to be missed
24:2013 Aleksandra Karpowicz – The hope of Warsaw
24:2013 David Mazza – Toddler with earmuffs
24:2013 Pierre Mansiet – Hush Hush (Lightly Sweeps The Time)
24:2013 Allan Pollok-Morris – Thames Floodwaters
24:2013 Julien Buckley – Fast Forward
24:2013 Carol Allen Storey – Subway
24:2013 Angela Zair – It’s only paper
24:2013 Candida Jones – Unseeing
24:2013 Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – We're all in this together
24:2013 Helen Chambers – Lovesign
24:2013 Claire Spreadbury – Night flood idyll
24:2013 Ildikó Buckley – Tuesday 8pm
24:2013 Yvonne De Rosa – Untitled
24:2013 Enrico Vietti – Time Parade
24:2013 Alexander Kenney – Giulia
24:2012 Christoph Grothgar – Boscolo Roma
24:2012 Guy Bell – Estate
24:2012 Alys Tomlinson – A Doll's House
24:2012 Ali Waggie – Philosophical Perception
24:2012 Colin Blackstock – Often walked
24:2012 Lola Nicholls – Identity Crisis
24:2012 Sarah Lucy Brown – Hope Springs Eternal
24:2012 Nicky Willcock – 22 years on, Enough Now
24:2012 Virginia Arendt – Reflect
24:2012 David Mazza – Everyone is at the Beach
24:2012 Pierre Mansiet – Untitled
24:2012 Allan Pollok-Morris – War and Peace
24:2012 1200 Julien Buckley – Empty Movement
24:2012 Enrico Vietti – Family Portrait
24:2012 Angela Zair – Feeling empty
24:2012 Candida Jones – Peekaboo
24:2012 Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann – Penrose Stairs
24:2012 Helen Chambers – The Shortcut
24:2012 Claire Spreadbury – Carousel
24:2012 Ildikó Buckley – Sunday 7pm
24:2012 Yvonne De Rosa – Clown Sign of Salvatore Di Giacomo's gardens
24:2012 Otis Edwin – Sainsbury's Frozen Dessert
24:2012 Alexander Kenney – Bus stop
24:2012 Beth Colocci – Trapped
Guy Bell – Eyrie
Alys Tomlinson – Untitled
Ali Waggie – First footing
Colin Blackstock – Not far from Norton Folgate
Justina Burnett – Looking out, looking in
Sarah Lucy Brown – Liminal space
Nicky Willcock – Transcience
Fiona George – Nice weather for ducks
David Mazza – Trampoline girl
Pierre Mansiet – Timothy and the golden leaf
Allan Pollock-Morris – Hog.man.y
Julien Buckley – Mobile memories
Enrico Vietti – Say cheese
Angela Zair – Dancing shoes
Candida Jones – The naked truth
Raphael Schutzer-Weismann – After lunch in Vargem Grande do Sol
Helen Chambers – Symbiotic
Claire Spreadbury – Untitled
Ildiko Buckley – 6pm Saturday
Yvonne de Rosa – Napoli
Raychel Clark – Untitled
Alexander Kenney – Unposed sitting man
Beth Colocci – Blue time
Izzy Swan – I do
Alys Tomlinson – Untitled
My image was taken just after midnight. I wanted to convey the unpredictability of another year beginning, but also the anticipation and aspirations that can accompany it. Much of my work is influenced by film and I love the cinematic quality that can be achieved when shooting at night. The image is powerful and a little sombre, but also hopeful.
Ali Waggie – And Then The World Stood Still
Moments in love appear like frozen moments in time: the future holds so much potential and there is so much to look forward to but if only this one moment could last forever. Dedicated to my sister, and her future husband.
Colin Blackstock – Blue Moon
The theme of rebirth is explored in this study in light during which the hours of darkness become reborn as day under the light of the blue moon which welcomed in the New Year. The cold, darkness of London Fields is illuminated by the light from the moon, which while frequently hidden by cloud provides enough light during a long exposure for the colours of the fallen leaves, grass and trees to appear as if in daylight, albeit with a preternatural quality. Stars are hidden by the passing cloud cover, yet the nearby street lights provide a new constellation towards the horizon. Sodium street lights, out of frame, provide a warming contrast to the darkness of the park.
Lydia Evans – Untitled
My kitsch twinkly Christmas tree made me think magical things may happen in this new year for me. I felt very calm. The first of January for many people always offers up a renewed feeling that the past 12 months can be put behind them and that one can start a fresh every New Year’s Day with new hopes and desires.
Sarah Lucy Brown – In Transit
Since time began the moon has held a mystical power – influencing everything from religion and old wives' tales to people’s emotions and the way they lead their lives. This New Year it was even more special, a rare blue moon that will not be seen again on New Year’s Eve for another 19 years. The space in my photograph was very symbolic of a transitional time in my life. The full moon symbolises the birth of a new stage in my life, much like the lunar cycle.
Nicky Willcock – Sunrise
In the depths of the night, head spinning from the night before, thoughts turn to the new year. What has been … what is to come. Hope is seen in a soft landscape of sheets and lamp, bringing aspirations for a new dawn.
Fiona George – Hey … I'd love a Babycham
After a joyous evening with friends the cocktail master suggested a round of Margaritas. At the back of the drinks cabinet we found dusty old Babycham glasses which managed to solve a problem: what to put the margaritas in. This was all very clever at 6am but didn't feel like it at noon.
David Mazza – One year after the fire
The recovery of the Australian bush after a fire is truly amazing. A forest resurrecting itself is a massive visual display of environmental endurance.
Pierre Mansiet – Kongen
Kongen – japanese: root, source, foundation, origin. Apartment buildings to the right, industrial site to the left, a fresh and fragile young tree (depicted by a bonsai) raised against the Paris sky soon after sunrise, a life stream formed by the river Seine flowing below; and red-lit roots, as many umbilical cords.
Allan Pollok-Morris – Untitled
Thinking of the New, rather than the Year, the moment, rather than the consequence. The low sun reveals leftovers from last night, there is a tentative sense of liberty, a freedom to make impulses and hopes a reality despite the desperate chill in the air. If not stripping off and jumping in the Channel, then maybe some change in direction, a new horizon or a different journey?
Julien Buckley – Big Sur
The morning of the New Year predominantly tends to be experienced in a dreamlike state, where reality is clouded by the hypnotic sense of the unreal. The beach symbolises the deliverance of the shoreline from its watery captor, before once more engulfing it in a ceaseless cycle of birth and rebirth
Enrico Vietti – Flying back
Flying back then touching ground. Back to earth. Heaven can help.
Angela Zair – Decisions
Candida Jones – Hope
I have three children. With the birth of each child there is a renewal of love and a reawakening of the realisation that precious time passes so soon. This image attempts to capture the steady, unchanging stillness and calm that is maternal love and the ephemeral flurry of frenetic energy that is our child.
Raph Stutzer-Weissmann – After Rubens
The postcard in the photograph, of a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, shows Christ being taken down from the cross, presaging his resurrection, which could be interpreted as rebirth.
Helen Chambers – Les nouveaux amis, le nouvel an
The previous year was difficult for some, but an ending represents a new start. Taken in a cafe in Strasbourg, while enjoying New Year's Day with friends, the picture represent my hopes for a new year and a new direction.
Claire Spreadbury – Little boxes on the hillside
The removal men drove all night. A little bit of snow wasn’t going to stop them. I breathed in the cold fresh air and looked out across the fields. We’d done it, we’d moved. New start.
Ildikó Buckley – Friday 5pm
The room is in a transitional phase where the presence of the previous inhabitant is still apparent in the decor and yet it also contains evidence of a new lease of life in the form of the various collected objects and items of its latest occupant.
Yvonne De Rosa – Napoli, Italy
Christoph Grothgar – Amazingness (Clair de Lune)
In many ways you might think taking a photograph through a kaleidoscope is easy. But the hole is tiny, the exposure becomes longer and longer and with every twist and turn it changes what you see. So when you finally press the shutter, it is a moment of surprise –much of what I have always loved about photography.
Alexander Kenney – Polar Bear Swim Club
Members of the North American Polar Bear Clubs have been swimming during the winter since 1903. The Vancouver Polar Bear Club started on New Year's Day 1920, with just 10 members. Today it is an annual event with 2,000 people taking the plunge. They do it for charity, a challenge, enjoyment, a hangover cure, to mark a new beginning, or like the man in the photograph because they were just born to do it.
Beth Colocci – Ova
Continuing her unique use of the fried egg as a printing medium, Ova explores the most literal symbolism of the egg – the maternal line. The base image is her daughter taken at 9pm on New Year’s Day. This is layered with images of herself and her own mother in their childbearing years, celebrating, yet questioning, the centrality of motherhood in our perception of women.
Kat Birch – 22 de Julio 02.13
My daughter's face emerging out of the water is reminiscent of her birth. She is quizzical yet calm after an illness and long journey. Her birth following the death of my mother 17 months earlier – the subject of last year's image.
Kelly Hill – Primordial
Primordial 1a: first created or developed: primeval b: existing in or persisting from the beginning (as of a solar system or universe) <a primordial gas cloud> c: earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ: primitive <primordial cells>
Ali Waggie
Colin Blackstock
Lydia Evans
Sarah Lucy Brown
Nicky Willcock
Fiona George
David Mazza
Pierre Mansiet
Charlie Dutton
Justina Burnett
Giampiero Assumma
Angela Zair
Candida Jones
Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann
Helen Chambers
Claire Spreadbury
Ildikó Buckley
Yvonne De Rosa
Christoph Grothgar
Caroline James
Alexander Kenney
Kat Birch
Kelly Hill
Alys Tomlinson
Colin Blackstock
Bethany Murray
Sarah Lucy Brown
Nicky Willcock
Susan Constance Marsh
David Mazza
Duncan Nicholls
Charlie Dutton
Justina Burnett
Fiona George
Angela Zair
Candida Jones
Raphael Shutzer-Weissmann
Helen Chambers
Claire Spreadbury
Ildikó Buckley
Yvonne De Rosa
Christoph Grothgar
Caroline James
Alexander Kenney
Kat Birch
Kelly Hill
Alys Tomlinson
Ali Waggie
Bethany Murray
Sarah Lucy Brown
Nicky Willcock
Jody Kingzett
David Mazza
Alessandro Giuliano
Christina Lange
Justina Burnett
Fiona George
Helena Smith
Candida Jones
Raphael Shutzer-Weissmann
Helen Chambers
Claire Spreadbury
Ildikó Buckley
Yvonne De Rosa
Christoph Grothgar
Caroline James
Alexander Kenney
Kat Birch
Kelly Hill
Alys Tomlinson
Ali Waggie
Colin Blackstock