Join this ongoing public art and history project where every day around the world people raise their smart phones as one to capture a picture at the exact same instant. Shutters fire automatically and the pictures speed around the world to reveal a single moment seen from thousands of perspectives.
AsOne is an exploration and celebration of this modern world through the lenses and power of your iPhones and iPads. The opportunity is unprecedented in human history. Never before has it been possible for thousands, even millions, of people from all points of the globe to act in unison down to the millisecond, capture beautiful pictures, and share these images, instantly, through wireless and fiber optic connections. Just a few years ago this would have been miraculous.
What we gain, and what we realize, through AsOne is that contained in every moment is all of life’s rich pageant. Night and day, winter and summer, rain and sun, all of human experience is always happening, right now, in every passing moment. AsOne captures slices of these fleeting slivers of time and lets the world share the experience and see itself not from a single viewpoint, but from all perspectives, each unique.
How to join and contribute
AsOne sends a notification at a different time every day. Open the notification and your camera starts automatically. Keep an eye on the countdown as you frame your perspective on the world in this moment. It doesn’t have to be brilliant or artistic, just real and honest. At zero, AsOne fires the shutter and sends your images into the world to be seen by people around the world.
Permissions
AsOne requests your location permission so that it can use this information to organize the world’s photos and place yours into context. AsOne also asks for Camera Roll permission so that it can store a copy of your image in a familiar place. And providing the Facebook permission makes for easier image tagging so that you can find your photos later and when you switch to a new iPhone.