Capturing every hour of each New Year's Day for 24 years
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A photography project, now in its 18th year, has released its latest images, reflecting on life in 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Photos by Brendan Delany, Sabes Sugunasabesan, Teri Pengilley and Helen Chambers
In 2004, 24 postgraduate students at Central St Martins, in London, set out to document every hour of New Year's Day, each year, for 24 years.
Each photographer progresses by one hour every year.
"Time is a construct, which 2020 has taught us," curator Cheryl Newman says.
"But as the clock struck midnight on 31 December, there was a collective tension.
"Covid-19 has forced us into isolation.
"And yet there is a communal anxiety driven by the dawn of a new year.
"Photographing the first day of 2021 was a profound journey... made under unprecedented circumstances.
"The work thoughtfully reflects the conflict between the hope of a promised vaccine, the dread of UK Brexit and an unsettled future."
The photos can be seen at an outdoor exhibition in Soho Square, external, west London, until 16 April.
00.00 The light at the end of the rainbow by Amy Adams
01.00 Nothing more to say by Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann
02.00 Black Lives Matter by Helen Chambers
03.00 Blue by Claire Spreadbury
04.00 Fragile by Gini May
05.00 Big O by Roland Ramanan
06.00 Untitled by Yvonne De Rosa
07.00 Contentious skiing by Enrico Vietti
08.00 Main road into Oxford by Wendy Aldiss
09.00 Continental breakfast by Sabes Sugunasabesan
10.00 Untitled by Teri Pengilley
11.00 Don't breathe… breathe again… repeat by Spei
12.00 Slipping away by Ali Waggie
13.00 Turn, turn, turn by Colin Blackstock
14.00 Untitled by Ray Malcolm
15.00 Untitled by Sarah Lucy Brown
16.00 1.5m [5ft] apart. Still banned by Nicky Townsend
17.00 Everybody inside by Amanda Eatwell
18.00 After the storm by David Mazza
19.00 Capetown by Rue Kruger
20.00 Covent Garden by Brendan Delaney
21.00 Lost in this moment by Wayne Crichlow
22.00 A remainer's solace by Candida Jones
23.00 Closing time by Rachel Hain
All photographs are subject to copyright.