17/10/05

The Ulysses Project
Blink Gallery, Soho, London, UK
October 2005

On June 16, 1904, the Irish author James Joyce went on his first date with Nora Barnacle, the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life. That day is immortalized in Joyce's novel Ulysses, and it is commemorated every year by Joyce fans and scholars, who gather in Dublin to retrace the steps around the city of the novel's hero, Leopold Bloom. In recording Bloom's progress, Joyce relates thoughts, impressions, memories, scraps of information and ideas. No detail is too small, insignificant or apparently random to be left out.

At D4 we decided to celebrate the centenary of Bloomsday in 2004 with a Joycean event of our own. On Saturday, June 19, we asked photographers, professional and amateur, all over the world to document the minutiae of their day, by taking a photograph every hour, on the hour. This issue features the days of 44 of the people who took part. It is an intriguing peek into peoples' weekends – and fridges and bedrooms – and a disturbing revelation of how many people take photographs while driving...

For more info: http://www.dayfour.info/D44ulysses.html