Everyday: A Yearlong Photo Diary. This item is unavailable.Everyday: A Yearlong Photo Diary

Every day between his thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth birthdays, photographer Byron Wolfe gave himself the task of making one new picture. The only rule he set was that each photo had to be original and compelling. This deceptively simple plan provided a chance not only for the busy photography teacher to carve out time for his own work, but also to document the world around him, in all its mundane detail and unexpected beauty. Perhaps the most surprising fact of all is how often the beautiful and the quotidian turned out to be one and the same. The 365 photos capture a year of life as it is actually experienced - moment by moment, detail by detail, in all its predictable routine and serendipitous color - and create a narrative attuned to detail, place, and the passage of time. The images in this collection reveal how serious creative work can stem from the most ordinary settings - deeply personal in their subject matter, yet universal in their simplicity.

Byron Wolfe teaches photography at California State University, Chico. He received the Santa Fe Photography prize in 2004, and has collaborated on several major rephotographic projects with Mark Klett.