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20 Years of the World Wide Panorama: no timeframe
Best Of 2024 – A World Wide Panorama: January – December 2024

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• Quarter I/2024: Cities
• Quarter II/2024: Evolution
• Quarter III/2024: Future
• Quarter IV/2024: Best Of 2024

Additional 20th anniversary events

Year-long event: 20 Years

• Themes for the events 2024 will be announced in the WWP facebook group and the WWP mailing list.
  
• Shooting period is January 1 to March 31.
• The preparation server will be open from January 1 to March 31. You can request your own account/profile page on the server during this period.
• The new event’s site will be made public as soon as this administrative check is complete.
• There will be a Late Edit period after the first edition is made public, and a second, extended edition will be published at need.
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Wrinkle reissue: Equinoxes and solstices

The "Wrinkle in time" was the first collaborative panorama shooting event and predecessor of the World Wide Panorama. As an anniversary tribute, we will organize an event in the tradition of the original "wrinkles": Shooting must take place within 12 hours before or after the respective equinox or solstice. In the following week you can process and upload your images, publishing will be after that.

• March equinox March 20, 03:06 UTC - Shooting from March 19, 15:06 UTC to March 20, 15:06 UTC.
• June solstice June 20, 20:51 UTC - Shooting from June 20, 08:51 UTC to June 21, 08:51 UTC.
• September equinox Sept 22, 12:44 UTC - Shooting from Sept 22, 00:44 UTC to Sept 23, 00:44 UTC.
• December solstice Dec 21, 09:21 UTC - Shooting from Dec 20, 21:21 UTC to Dec 21, 21:21 UTC.

III Future

Photography and uploading July 1 to September 30, 2024, live on October 1

Essay by Carsten Rees and Erik Krause

Who knows the future? Nobody does. A once popular Italian-English song said "Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, the future is not ours to see". But the future is coming anyway, we can't stop it, be it good or bad. Is the future determined? Yes and no. We rely on things to be permanent. The road I travelled today will probably be there tomorrow. But it's not certain, tomorrow there could be a building site, a sinkhole or whatever. A German poet during the time of the 30 Years War put it that way:

Du siehst, wohin du siehst, nur Eitelkeit auf Erden.
Was dieser heute baut, reißt jener morgen ein;
Wo jetzund Städte stehn, wird eine Wiese sein,
Auf der ein Schäferskind wird spielen mit den Herden;

Wherever you look, you see only vanity on earth.
What one builds today, another tears down tomorrow;
Where cities now stand, there will be a meadow,
On which a shepherd's child will play with the herds;

So what do you shoot for such a subject? Well, there are trends, things that are called "futuristic" or "this is the future of..." For example, of public transport, of mobility or travel, of architecture or cities, of living, working or leisure. The future can be utopian or dystopian, as in countless video games, science fiction films or youth culture. Punk coined the slogan "No Future", which wasn't originally dystopian, but soon took on that meaning, influenced by the Cold War, pessimism and despair. But the future is built on the past, and when we look at what we have achieved, there is little reason for despair. Life expectancy is higher than ever, we have conquered most of the killer diseases, and the number of people on earth living in extreme poverty has fallen from 2 billion in 1990 to less than 0.75 billion to future day. But still not only life expectancy and education do heavily rely on the socio-economic status of your family, your neighbourhood, the continent you live on, still such a long way to go...