Cathy's Art Diary

Lovely outdoor exhibition in Soho Square of this year’s pictures in a project to document New Year’s day over 24 years. On the first day of 2005 24 photography students from Central St Martin’s were allocated an hour of the day to photograph. They decided to continue the project and each year they move on an hour. From the look of the pictures some of them have now moved aboard and some look more domestic that those taken 20 years ago. Shout outs to David Mazda’s picture of a boat and Candida Jones’s “Meditation” of a man on a bench with memorial flowers. I like the way the pictures are displayed in the traditional heart of partying London in the open air. I last saw this show 5 years ago and will be fascinating to see how the project develops.   Closed 19 March 2025

Nice open air exhibition in Soho Square of this year’s pictures in a project to document New Year’s day over 24 years. 24 photographers were allocated an hour of the day to photograph then each year they move on an hour. This is the sixteenth year of the project. This display was curated by Ed Kashi, the American photojournalist. I like the way the pictures were displayed in the flower beds. My favourite pictures were Wendy Aldiss’s of a very realistic sculpture of an old man looking out of a window and Sabes Sugunasabesan’s “Silenced” a picture of Big Ben in scaffolding. An iconic New Year image. I’ll certainly look out for future exhibitions of this project and it will be fascinating to see the accumulated picture at the end of the 24 years. Closed on 19 March 2019 Review Guardian