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 interesting, you can really capture the “true” emotion in this clip. So simply and so moving, Nice job.
It’s funny as I just visited the Andy Warhol ‘Motion Pictures’ exhibit @ MoMA in NYC and it is very similar in scope to Chase’s portrait… Great minds think alike;)
Go see it, it really is worth it, esp. young Dennis Hopper is mesmerizing in these short screen tests projected onto museum walls…
I think this is brilliant! To look at his face and wonder what he is thinking. The medium gives no context as to where he is, or who is around him, or what he did 5 minutes before that or after. A face like the movement of the sea. What does the human face reveal? Perhaps if we slowed it down a tad to maybe read between the lines. Nice.
I shoot yesterday the sculptor Miguel Angel Betancur, and try this 60 sec idea..
http://vimeo.com/18661909
Cool idea. It is defiantly capturing something different then a still. I might have to try this out sometime.