A Day in the World

One Day?millions of perspectives. On May 15, 2012, people from around the globe will pick up their cameras to record their lives, A Day in the World will be the result. Professionals and amateur shutterbugs alike are featured in this beautiful edition, the most comprehensive photographic documentation of daily life ever made. Tribal areas and urban sprawl, intimate portraits and riotous events, A Day in the World captures a global scope with the candor only a photograph can capture.

The book was the brainchild of the movement Aday.org, a unique project that celebrates the power of photography to encourage cultural understanding. Based on the philosophy that everyone’s life matters, contributors come from areas as varied as the Earth itself?farmers, fishermen, office workers, and award-winning photo-journalists. Harnessing the reach of the Web, an interactive site was the hub for the project, and then the best 1000 images were selected by an international jury. Ultimately, A Day in the World is not only an around-the-globe ticket for the armchair traveler?it is an invaluable record of the people on our planet, sure to spark reflections on humankind for generations to come.

A Day in the World launches from Aday.org, a branch of the foundation Expressions of Humankind. The foundation’s council includes Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson, singer/songwriter Robyn, and a host of other luminaries and advocates for the project.

Jeppe Wikstrom is one of Scandinavia's best-known and most-published photographers, with some 20 book titles to his credit. He is the initiator of several of Scandinavia’s largest photographic projects and the winner of many awards for excellence in photography. Wikstrom is one of the founders of the non-profit Expressions of Humankind, which works to promote human understanding through photography, and created the A Day in the World project.