A POSE A DAY HELPS YOU WORK REST AND PLAY.

This project requires me to shoot and present A Fresh Snapshot Of Myself Every Single Day.

I began it in July 2006.

I like ideas and I enjoy putting ideas into practice. I like trying ideas out, rather than segregating them from a prescribed day to day reality.

The Choices and Decisions that go into constructing each Daily Self Portrait tend to be Improvised, Intuitive, Spur of the Moment and Unrehearsed.

A CULTURE'S POWER STRUCTURE DEPENDS LARGELY ON HOW WE LOOK AND HOW WE ARE LOOKED AT.

As it is exceedingly likely that there is no almighty point to Existence other than to Explore the Experience, my work tends to be heavily informed by ideas around SELF CREATED PURPOSE, SELF OWNERSHIP and LIVING AS ART (Transhuman Automorphism). Here this manifests as daily self instigated fulfillment via micro projects. In this project I have made a commitment to abide by a series of (arbitrary) boundaries and rules, eg: each portrait must be taken before midnight of each day, they can never be shot days in advance nor in retrospect, the default pose is as for ID cards, forward facing, minimal expression etc etc ....Citizen Higgs clocking in, day after day after day.

Back in July 2006 I decided to chuck the telly out of my home. I had this thought that I'd have a go at Entertaining Myself instead with at least One Fresh Self Portrait Every Day. I'm curious to see where this commitment will lead me over an extended period of time.

My self portraits originated as a resource for a series of photo-webcomic strips. Here in this project an image from each day is presented solo, in a chronological context, and without any obligation to be garnished with words.

I hope you enjoy my DAILY SELF PORTRAITS as much as I regularly do.

ELSEWHERE BY RUSSELL HIGGS: http://conformandobey.co.uk/

 

me, the only camera I can afford right now, a clock, a wall, light and shadow, assorted objects and ideas, a computer, a modem etc

 

my DAILY SELF PORTRAITS are licensed under
a CREATIVE COMMONS Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5.

AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO USE MY PICTURES PLEASE HAVE THE COURTESY OF CREDITING MY NAME SOMEWHERE AND LINKING BACK TO THIS SITE. I say this because back in November 2006 I discovered somebody had grabbed my entire collection and turned it into a video, but without initially mentioning my name anywhere, despite it being composed entirely of shot after shot after shot of my face and my ideas.

and please contact me just to let me know that you're using my work. Thanks