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.
Very cool. Reminds me of some of the stuff Hillman Curtis was doing a couple years ago. Something about the subtle motion can have quite an impact.
Sweet! awesome features & expression …reminds me of Warhol. …Can’t wait to see more.
PS: Chase: I had emailed you a few months back about the possibility of assisting or lending any kind of hand for one of your projects. (if you have anything planned during the time I plan on being in your neck of the woods).
You told me you couldn’t commit to anything and to check back via your social media/online channels. So… I am.
I will be in Vancouver/Whistler for the first 2 weeks of Jan (flying home on the 15th) …I certainly wouldn’t mind making the jolt across the border if it worked out.
I’ve left my email attached to this post.
Cheers’ and hope you and your team have a Merry Christmas.
Best of luck in the new year.
Kiriako
MIke’s weathered look really makes something like this work really well. Each subtle move is exaggerated by his defined lines.
Another great example of a face saying a lot without whisering a word, this portrait shot by the USC student winner of our last photo contest:
http://www.snapshotscholar.com/leaderboards/scholar2
Great job! This idea looks familiar (http://nyti.ms/guLoX6) You get some inspiration from there? Really like this idea of video portraits.