52 by 52 | 52 by 52 — Weekly photo challenges set by accomplished photographers

Members' Book

Members’ Book

The 52 by 52 Members’ Book is now available free both as a PDF or eBook. A printed version of the book is also available to purchase in softback and hardback formats.

It aims to showcase a small selection of the 1300+ images submitted to the project and tries to give a flavour of the diverse work created in a plethora of styles and formats.
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Challenge #52

Beauty’s Nothing. Show me your take on this.
— Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander | Member’s submissions for #52

Challenge #51

Flip the script.
— Josh Cole

Josh Cole | Member’s submissions for #51

Challenge #50

Bend it, break it, bin it.
— Palmer + Pawel

Palmer + Pawel | Member’s submissions for #50

Challenge #49

Movement in still images is a paradox. Combine movement and stillness in a single photograph.
— Bertil Nilsson

Bertil Nilsson | Member’s submissions for #49

Challenge #48

Take a photograph of an event. Focus on putting it in the context of the landscape and those watching.
— Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts | Member’s submissions for #48

Challenge #47

The world is forever changing; a rock spinning through space. The land we think we own is only borrowed. What stands today will be taken back over time. Photograph impermanence.
— Mitch Dobrowner

Mitch Dobrowner | Member’s submissions for #47

Challenge #46

Shoot your subjects from behind.
— Irina Werning

Irina Werning | Member’s submissions for #46

Challenge #44

Take a photograph of yourself, from behind the camera.
— Kate Peters

Kate Peters | Member’s submissions for #44

Challenge #43

Make an image of unsustainability.
— Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky | Member’s submissions for #43

Challenge #42

A portrait is to be given never taken… Use this as your guide and give a street portrait of a complete stranger.
— Steve Pyke

Steve Pyke | Member’s submissions for #42

Challenge #41

Make a color photograph of a scene that has no (or very little) color. Think monochromatic.
— Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson | Member’s submissions for #41

Challenge #40

The painter Bonnard said “Make little lies to tell a great truth”. Use that as your inspiration.
— Chloe Dewe Mathews

Chloe Dewe Mathews | Member’s submissions for #40

Challenge #39

“Try again, fail again, fail better.”
(Samuel Beckett)— Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse | Member’s submissions for #39

Challenge #38

Photograph something that can never happen again.
— Harry Benson

Harry Benson | Member’s submissions for #38

Challenge #37

Try to transform our world into an abstract image.
— Lucie & Simon

Lucie & Simon | Member’s submissions for #37

Challenge #36

Hope is the poor man’s bread. Photograph hope.
— Niall McDiarmid

Niall McDiarmid | Member’s submissions for #36

Challenge #35

Photograph your feelings in a state of boredom.
— Gerd Ludwig

Gerd Ludwig | Member’s submissions for #35

Challenge #34

Use your camera as an excuse to go and spend time with someone that you’ve always been curious about.
— Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur | Member’s submissions for #34

Challenge #33

Create a portrait that expresses isolation in circumstances that are not isolated.
— Terry O’Neill

Terry O’Neill | Member’s submissions for #33

Challenge #32

Close your eyes, turn your eyeballs around. Photograph what you see.
— Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen | Member’s submissions for #32

Challenge #31

Try and apply a technique or style that is widely associated with a specific photographic genre and use it in an unconventional way.
— Maja Daniels

Maja Daniels | Member’s submissions for #31

Challenge #30

Take a photograph that is strong and necessary of something which is not photogenic.
— Paolo Woods

Paolo Woods | Member’s submissions for #30

Challenge #29

Make a portrait where the primary goal is to engineer intimacy from a situation that is fundamentally artificial.
— Chris Floyd

Chris Floyd | Member’s submissions for #29

Challenge #28

Take two things that do not fit together, and put them together.
— Klaus Pichler

Klaus Pichler | Member’s submissions for #28

Challenge #27

Use a Random Point Generator to pick the exact location where you make a photograph.
— Alec Soth

Alec Soth | Member’s submissions for #27