Karen Strunks, a photographer based in Birmingham, has called for everyone with camera or camera phone to capture the peace (or chaos) of their surroundings at 4am on 04 April.

The project started as collaboration between the photographer and her blog readers. ‘They thought it’s a good idea,’ Strunks tells BJP. She only realised the scale of the project when it was launched and admitted it to be her first wide-ranging brainchild. She used Twitter and Flickr to promote the idea internationally and looked through other photographers’ work offering them to submit photos as preparation for the set date.

‘I don’t want the project to end after the 4th of April,’ Karen says. She plans on proposing 4am scene ideas to her followers every month. ‘Maybe the view outside your window or countryside where you live in,’ Strunks comments.

The 4am Project also invites impatient snappers to send in their early morning images to 4amproject@googlemail.com or tag them as 4amproject on Flickr. The idea has already attracted sleepless photographers from around the world, including Russia, Canada, USA, Australia, Malaysia, Sweden, and Brazil.

To get involved visit www.4amproject.org.