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24h is a photography program established by the French photography organization Photographie.com and kicked off in October 2010 commissioning photographers to document specific events around the globe. During each event, selected photographers are given 24 hours to express their talent and explore and photograph whatever interests them. Selected shots are disseminated live on the 24h.com website. This experiment in "neo-media" enables a photographer's work to be posted very quickly.

Events covered by 24h.com include:
  • 2 October 2010: Nuit blanche in Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

  • 9 October 2010: Hanoi
    Hanoi
    Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

     Millennium
  • 23 April 2011: Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

     (on the occasion of the opening of the Caochangdi Photo Spring festival)
  • 11 September 2011: 10 Year Commemoration 9-11


According to founder Didier de Faÿs "24h is the press experience which upsets the usual codes of journalism and tries to show people a new approach of photography. 24h usually works with local photographers and brings an authentic vision of the culture and the populations".

Photographers participating in 24h-projects include Claudius Schulze, Jane Evelyn Atwood
Jane Evelyn Atwood
Jane Evelyn Atwood is an American photographer living in Paris since 1971.Jane Evelyn Atwood defines herself more as a photographer of projects rather than a photojournalist. Her photographic projects can take several years in order to go deep into the topic. Her photography study of women in...

, Jean-Christian Bourcart
Jean-Christian Bourcart
Jean-Christian Bourcart first gained attention in France, his native country, for "Infertile Madonnas" , a series of photographs taken in Frankfurt brothels, which was widely exhibited and also published with an introduction by Nan Goldin...

, Patrick Chauvel
Patrick Chauvel
Patrick Chauvel has been an independent war photographer since his youth. He went through more than twenty conflicts all over the world, including the Vietnam War and the Six-Day War.He is also author of some documentary movies....

, Olivier Laban-Mattei
Olivier Laban-Mattei
Olivier Laban-Mattei is a French documentary photographer. He grew up in Paris where he studied geography and sociology. He was influenced by the photos of the Vietnam War and became a self-taught photographer. After having worked with AFP for 10 years he decided in 2010 to start a career as an...

, Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati, born 1952 in Tabriz, Iran is an Iranian-French photojournalist, who works under the name Reza .-Biography:Reza has covered much of the globe for National Geographic Magazine. Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline...

 or Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...

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