ADay.org Aims to Inspire Generations to Come by Capturing One Day in Our World
On July 24th, 2010 tens of thousands of people captured a video snipped of their life that day and uploaded it to YouTube where director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott edited the lot of them together into a 95min feature film — which you can now watch for free. On May 15th, it’s the photographer’s turn.
Jeppe Wikstrom, co-founder of ADay.org and leader of the 2003 Sweden version, explains the reason behind this world-wide call to photograph our lives:
Pictures from our life are one of the thing that we cherish the most, and if you don’t preserve them they’re gone. . . We somehow think everyone in Africa is starving and we assume that everyone in China rides a bike.
Wikstrom is quoted in WIRED ambitiously calling the project an “update” to the famous 1955 global photography exhibit “A Family of Man” by Edward Steichen; only this time around all of the photos — the good, the bad, and the ugly — will be available online for the whole world to see.
ADay.org is also planning a global exhibit featuring some of the best submissions, alongside a book they will be producing for those who are interested. If you want your region, city, home, or life represented for future generations — and we hope that you do — be sure to snap a photo on May 15th and follow the instructions on their website.