A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart

The morning hours before the hustle and bustle of the day commences is the perfect time to pause and enjoy a sense of renewal and vitality. On the morning of December 7 2006 Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes each took a digital photo of everyday objects randomly arranged on their kitchen tables and unbeknownst to one another uploaded them to the website Flickr. Noticing a remarkable similarity between their images they agreed to document their mornings by posting one photo to a shared blog every weekday for a year.

A Year of Mornings collects 236 images–always taken before 10 am without discussion between the two women–from this uniquely 21st-century artistic collaboration. The intimacy of these photographs–discarded clothing a view of a snowy day from the window a tablecloth–combined with their striking similarities in color and composition defies the reality of their long-distance collaboration. While clearly kindred spirits the two women have met in person only once. Their friendship is maintained solely online sustained by a shared love for moments of serenity solitude and peacefulness. The annotated photographs in A Year of Mornings radiate an aura of sweetness and light–the promise of a new day.

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568987846
• ASIN: B004H8GM9E