Starting from 01 October and running for 52 weeks, the Street Photography Now Project aims at building "a global community of photographers exploring the rewards and challenges of documenting public life."

The project comes as Thames & Hudson is releasing Street Photography Now, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren. The book is a survey of the leading street photographers of the past twenty years - such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb.

Each week, one of the 52 photographers featured in the book will issue instructions for street photographers around the world to follow. "These detailed instructions will act as a call to arms to photographers to look afresh at their immediate surroundings and to literally take to the streets," say the organisers. "All photographers will be encouraged to comment and respond to the images posted to the Flickr page."

Once the instructions have been issues, photographers will have six days to respond and upload one photograph to the Street Photography Now Project gallery on Flickr. At the end of the 52 weeks, "the photographer felt to have made the most outstanding contribution over the year will be awarded £1000 of Thames & Hudson books and have their work displayed on The Photographers’ Gallery digital Wall for All at the Gallery’s newly redeveloped space."

The first instructions have been issued by Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden, however, participants will have to wait until 01 October before submitting their shots:

For more information, visit streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com, the Project's Flickr group and www.photonet.org.uk.