24h (24h.com) is a photography program established by the French photography magazine
Photographie.com and kicked off in October 2010 commissioning photographers to document specific events around the globe. During each event, selected photographers are given 24 hours to express their talent and explore and photograph whatever interests them. Selected shots are disseminated live on the 24h.com website. This experiment in "neo-media" enables a photographer's work to be posted very quickly.
Events covered by 24h.com include:
* 2 October 2010: Nuit blanche in
Paris
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* 9 October 2010:
Hanoi
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Millennium
* 23 April 2011:
Beijing
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(on the occasion of the opening of the Caochangdi Photo Spring festival)
* 11 September 2011: 10 Year Commemoration
9-11
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* 12/13 November 2011: Le
Paris de la Photo
According to founder Didier de Faÿs, "24h is the press experience which upsets the usual codes of journalism and tries to show people a new approach of photography. 24h usually works with local photographers and brings an authentic vision of the culture and the populations".
Photographers participating in 24h-projects include
Claudius Schulze,
Jane Evelyn Atwood
Jane Evelyn Atwood (born 1947) is an American photographer, who has been living in Paris since 1971. Working primarily with documentary photography, Atwood typically follows groups of people or individuals, focusing mostly on people who are on th ...
,
Jean-Christian Bourcart,
Patrick Chauvel,
Olivier Laban-Mattei,
Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati (born July 26, 1952) is an Iranian-French photojournalist who works under the name Reza ( fa, رضا).
Early life
Reza was born in Tabriz, Iran. He is of Azerbaijani origin.[Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born December 23, 1968) is a stateside Puerto Rican photographer. He is best known for his social documentary photography of people's living conditions in less developed nations. Rivera-Ortiz lives in Rochester, New York an ...]
.
References
External links
24h Official Website (with image galleries)
Photography in France
Visual arts publishing companies
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