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Dec 12

4am Project on 6th December

Hi Everyone!

I’ve put together a round up of the 4am Project event on 6th December. Thank you to everyone who took part! Over the coming weeks I shall be featuring your fab photos on the blog and putting in links to the photographers who have blogged about their 4am photo experience.

As part of the 4am Project I organised a photo event on 6th December which was held at the Bodies Revealed exhibition in my hometown of Birmingham.  I’ve had lots of great feedback and I’m glad you enjoyed the event!

Lots of amazing photographs of the exhibition have been submitted to flickr!

I took the opportunity to ask some of the photographers how they heard about the 4am Project and if they enjoyed the event! Thank you everyone who took part in the video.

And there is more! Being a world wide project, lots of other photographers from around the world set their alarms and headed out in the wee small hours with their cameras to capture their world at 4am. Take a look!

If you would like to take part in the next 4am Project event, put the 4thApril in your diary! Maybe get some friends together too! You can keep up to date with all the 4am Project news on the website, and you can follow the project on twitter too @4amproject

A big thank you to the sponsors of the Birmingham event. Hello Digital, Big Cat PR and of course the Bodies Revealed exhibition.

Hello Digital 2009 Birmingham

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Nov 23

4am…..6th December!

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Photograph by Supercoolkp

 
Hello Everyone! Are you ready for another 4am photo project?
 
This time we are going for 6th December…..at 4am. Join other photographers around the world and take part in the global project!
 
Take a picture of your view of the world at 4am….Get your friends and family to join in! Go out for a photo walk and explore your surroundings at a rarely experienced time!
 
I’m organising an event in my home city of Birmingham, UK which you can read about over on my blog. If you are in the area, you are welcome to join in!
 
We are building up to the big event on the 4am on 4th April 2010! Put the date in your diary now and tell you friends!
 
 
 Please feel free to print off this poster for your work places, photography class, schools etc..
December 09 Poster
 

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Mar 24

4am Project On The Radio

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By Karen Strunks, Birmingham, UK

If you would like to read about my photography and project, please visit my blog.
 
A few weeks ago I was invited onto the Sunday Social  show on Rhubarb Radio by presenters Mark Steadman and Michael Grimes to talk about the 4am Project.
 
Thanks for inviting me, guys! I really enjoyed my first radio experience.
 
Mark had kindly edited the show, and you can now listed to a 5 minute podcast of my interview where I talk about the origins of the 4am Project.
 
 
If you can’t see the player, please visit the podcast website.  
 
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Me (Karen Strunks) with presenter Michael Grimes
 
 
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Presenter Mark Steadman
 
The BBC have just written a feature about the project. If you would like to take a look, please visit their website.
 
Thanks to everyone for their support! Only 10 days to go until 4th April. Remember to tell your friends and families! :)
 
Do you twitter? Join the 4am Project and come and say hello!
 

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Feb 28

4am Project On The Radio – Sunday 1st March

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Tune in ONLINE tomorrow – Sunday 1st of March – Rhubarb Radio - from 1pm GMT

Just click the Listen Now button on the top right hand side of the page and listen live!

I’ll be talking about the 4am Project with hosts of Sunday Social show, Mark Steadman and Micheal Grimes.

Hope you will join me!  

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Karen Strunks, The 4am Project

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Feb 18

First featured 4am photo!

Moseley at 4am 01 by Pete Ashton, Birmingham, UK

It’s time to get this blog rolling!

I will be featuring 4am photos on the blog, but also lots of other things themed around 4am like poems, songs, videos. If you know of anything 4am related, drop me a line 4amproject@googlemail.com, or leave a comment. I would really like this site to be a collaboration, and I can’t do that without you!

So, onto our first featured photo by Pete Ashton. A very snowy 4am scene. I really like the ethereal light coming from behind the tress and to the right of the photo. The snow laden foreground is peppered with animal footprints – maybe made by foxes or cats. When you look through the boughs of the fir trees heavy with snowfall, you can see a house and can imagine it’s inhabitants fast asleep in warm beds in contrast to the cold winter scape that awaits them when they wake up.

Thank you Pete for submitting your photos of 4am. Pete wrote about his 4am photo taking experience on his blog. You can read about it here.

The 4th April at 4am is the big date we are counting down to, but you can still submit any 4am photos that you have already taken to be included in the global 4am picture. All you need is a flickr account (it’s free), and then to tag your photo with ’4amproject’. For more information on how to do this, please visit this page.

Remember you can also follow the 4amproject on twitter! @4amproject

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Jan 21

Welcome to the 4am Project!

By Karen Strunks
By Karen Strunks

Hi. My name’s Karen Strunks,  and my curiosity about 4am began about a year ago.

I live in Birmingham – the UK’s second largest city – and after a night out a while back, I was driving from one side of the city to the other. It was around 4am and I was really struck by the cityscape. Streets and roads normally teeming with people and traffic were deserted. The city was asleep and it felt like I had it all to myself. I liked it.

So late last year, I went out to take my first pictures at 4am in Birmingham. I’ve made some of them available on my blog. Recently, I’ve been inviting people out with me and asking for their suggestions of places they’d like to see at 4am. They decide where to go, and I take the photos, so it’s become a collaboration.

When I started to think about how the idea could be extended, the 4amproject was born.

I’d like to involve you in this project. What will YOU be doing at 4am on 4th of April?

Put the date in your diary, set your alarm, and take a picture of your world at 4am. It can be of anything at all. A self portrait, the room you’re in, the view from your window. Perhaps you want to venture out a bit further, maybe you’ll be travelling, or at work – maybe you’re a night owl…

I’m going to get some friends together and go out and have a 4am party. Why not do the same? Get some of your friends and family involved too. Or simply set the alarm, take a picture, and go back to the land of nod.

Whatever you’re doing, it’d be great if you could get involved and play a part in building up a big picture of the world at 4am.

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