Relations between photo and time causes very controversial issues. Photo records present time but it still has to be evidence of the past. How to discover time? How to take a sample of it? Photo-project “Contact in Time” tries to answer these questions.

The project was realized 2 times. First - in the middle of summer 2005, the second - in the middle of spring 2007. 

Photographers agreed in advance about the date of meeting in time - 15 July 2005 - middle of the year and the summer - at exactly 12.00, Moscow time.

At the same time, each in his own city, separated by borders and space, keeping in touch with each other only by means of watches, two groups of six people gathered at intersection of main roads and went for a walk with cameras.

The first frame: 12 shutters clicked synchronously. Then “contact-in-timers” shot something that attracted their attention with an interval of exactly one minute. 7 frames of film and 12 photo-documentations in several countries. First time 12 participants from 2 counties - Russia and Finland took part in the project. The second time, April 15, 2007, the project brought together twelve authors from three countries, five cities and one village.