Street Photography Now Project

After six days the next instruction will be issued. See the Take Part section of this website for more details on how to contribute.

The Project will run for 52 weeks, and you can join in at any time. The aim is to build a global community of photographers exploring the rewards and challenges of documenting public life. All photographers, including those who contribute to the Instructions, will be encouraged to comment and respond to the images posted to the Flickr groups.

Though not a competition, at the end of the Project one photographer will be chosen who has made the most outstanding contribution to the project across a number of weeks. They will be awarded £1000 of Thames & Hudson books and have their work displayed on The Photographers’ Gallery digital Wall for All.

The Street Photography Now Project was launched in September 2010, as The Photographers’ Gallery closed its doors for the redevelopment of its building on Ramillies Street. The Project will run for one year and is scheduled to end when The Photographers’ Gallery reopens in late 2011.

A note on the website from our designers Europa: “The Street Photography Now Project instructions are colour coded in line with the weather conditions on the day of their issue, giving photographers an indication of the lighting conditions that they will be subjecting themselves and their lenses to. The colours vary with temperature from red down to blue and with sunlight from full saturation down to grey. So for a freezing cloudy day expect the instruction to be set on a bluey grey background and for a scorching sunny week expect to see a bright, vivid red.”

Street Photography Now Project is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, authors of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson).