As a springboard from all the portrait work I’ve done over the past three years, I, at some time during that process, became really attuned/enamored/moved by people’s faces and started experimenting with a new creative study. Internally we’re calling it “60”. In short, it’s really simple: I’m taking 60 second video portraits of people. No instruction, no direction, no coaching, nothing. Just the camera pointed at them for a minute.
Although the concept is simple, I’ve found the results to be pretty interesting. At a fundamental level, the human face says a lot, even without the person saying anything at all.
While I’ve been at this for a while, I thought it would be time to start sharing some of these portraits here on the blog. This chase jarvis 60 features world-renowned explorer Mike Horn. You may remember Mike from my Pangaea experience across the South China Sea with Panerai watches. [Lots of posts here, here, and here.] It was a life changing experience for me, and a good bit of it was getting to know Mike. Hopefully you’ll get to know him a little here as well.
Love to know your thoughts.
[aside: if you are interested in seeing these videos when I post them to youtube, rather than just the occasional ones that make it here to the blog, you’re invited to subscribe to my youtube channel here. thx]
Shout out to McKenzie Stubbert for the music.
Hi Chase,
Just wondering if you have seen the “50 people 1 question series”, in some way similar to your work here. I work for a local newspaper in Hobart, Tasmania and this seemed like a much more interesting way of doing the traditional vox pop. Either way, worht checking out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Chrq17zKI&feature=related
Cheers Richard
I like it because it’s different. It made me think about this person. Certainly an interesting project. Sounds you’ve got more in the pipeline.
I just made one of my 2 1/2 month old daughter! I’ll post a link to it on twitter (@vanearl) when i get it up on the net.