About 365 days

Zo Damage
365 Day Project
25 February 2016 (Leap year) – 24 February 2017
366 Days

On 25 February 2016, Melbourne photographer Zo Damage committed to photographing a live band or more every day for an entire year with her 365 Day Project. The project explores and documents 366 consecutive days of live music and music culture, Zo’s unique and insightful outlook sharing a rich narrative of diversity, art and community. Zo set herself some simple guidelines to work by for her 365 Day Project, the most important being that photographs of one or more live music performances must be taken on the day every day. Zo successfully completed her unprecedented 365 Day Project on 24 February 2017. In August 2017, Zo launched her 365 Day Project book, The Damage Report. (Readings Books review “The Importance of The Damage Report” by Gerald Elson.) On releasing The Damage Report, Zo’s 365 Day Project exhibition toured the east coast of Australia, showing at Arts Centre Melbourne, Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary (Sydney) and Bib’n’Brace Collective (Brisbane). Presented in chronological order, the instalments comprised no less than 460 photographs representing each of the 366 calendar entries of the project. In November 2017, Zo was presented with The Age Music Victoria Awards Outstanding Achievement Award for her 365 Day Project and book The Damage Report.

This 365 days project page features 52 posts, as seen below, representing each week of Zo’s unprecedented undertaking. Within each weekly post, the photographs Zo captured are presented in chronological order. Scroll through for an overview of the project and click on a week to view the artists, events and venues Zo photographed. CLICK THE BACK BUTTON after viewing a specific week to return to the main 365 days project page. Zo also shared several entries during the project, posted on the Zo Damage Blog.