Round up of “X takes a photo of themselves every day for Y years”
There’s lately been a gamut of stop-frame videos of people who’ve taken photos of themselves every day for years. It’s an intriguing idea for a project, but I’m not sure I could force myself to do it for a long enough time period.
- madandcrazychild’s effort is short, but she’s nice to look at so that’s ok
- Sven and Tobias‘ efforts are impressive for what they are (taking a photo every day for 3 years), but ultimately they’re boring compared to others
- Phil is much more interesting, with beard and hair changing gradually, and then getting a bit more creative toward the end
- Like Tobias and Sven, Marqs video is a great achievement, but very repetitive. Also a bit lo-fi
- Lee has a different take, not only in that he doesn’t attempt to be in the same position with the same expression every frame. There is some debate about the authenticity of this
- Ben, staged but humourous. Apparently this was used as a Mountain Dew ad in the US
- ahreelee’s take is haunting, because she doesn’t change much over the course of three years, and even though she tries not to, just occasionally you get a glipse of a smile
- elko9, only 269 images, but more interesting as she makes a real effort to make each frame unique - there is no sense of continuity
- Orange is a piss take, filed under Comedy, but not actually that funny
Tags: art, photography
