If you haven't seen Jonathan's work over at Number27.org, go now.
I'll wait for you to come back.
Just got a note about the launch of his latest piece, Whale Hunt.
Here's how he describes it:
"Last May I spent ten days with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, during their annual spring whale hunt. I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant “photographic heartbeat”. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.
Then I made an online framework for browsing this story in some interesting ways. You can read more about the piece, see some highlights, or jump right in. Happy hunting!"
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