This photographer took a selfie every day for 20 years to make this 8-minute timelapse
Jan 14, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Photographer Noah Kalina started his ongoing project Everyday on 11 January 2000. He would take a photo of himself every single day, and his project turned 20 a few days ago. To celebrate this incredible milestone, Noah published a mesmerizing timelapse that shows 20 years of life in only eight minutes.
Noah started this project when he was only 20 years old. He published the first video on 31 July 2006, six and a half years after taking the first photo. And then, he posted another one six years later, on 30 June 2012.
Now, it’s been 20 years since Noah started his project. He collaborated with Carly Comando, who composed the music for his latest video. In only 8 minutes, it shows Noah going from a 20-year-old to a 40-year-old:
There are a few other similar projects we’ve seen over the years. Dutch artist and filmmaker Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter Lotte also over the course of 20 years, but he would record a short clip every week. There are also a few projects covering shorter time spans, such as the ones by Rebecca Brown, Eadington, and Hugo Cornellier.
Still, Noah’sproject is the longest-going “a photo a day” project so far, at least to my knowledge. As one of the commenters on YouTube noticed on one of his earlier videos, Noah started Everyday before YouTube existed. If I may add, it was also before the word “selfie” was used. I think that it’s safe to say that his project popularized this format. His video even inspired an episode of The Simpsons which shows Homer’s life in two minutes.
https://youtu.be/BV_tUTlcuUs
Personally, I find projects like this fascinating for multiple reasons. First of all, I’m amazed by the devotion needed to create something like this. During the same 20 years, I think I’ve had at least 50 started and unfinished projects. Another thing is that it’s incredible to see someone change in such a short time. And lastly, these projects even make me emotional as they remind me how fast the time goes by.
[via Laughing Squid]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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30 responses to “This photographer took a selfie every day for 20 years to make this 8-minute timelapse”
thats dedication…. !!
He didn’t seem to happy about it. Lol. That is impressive though. Nice!
Dude look haggard after 20 years..lol. I recently did a similar thing and you don’t realize the effect of time till you see it. This is 30 years apart.
Garrick Morgenweck I see you still shoot expert so that’s good
Damn. And I’m still the same baby-face I was 20 years ago… almost.
Yeah… So- no-one touches my beard ?
If(!?)Jonathan Keller, the “picture of my face a day” guy is still doing the picture he could be one of oldest and longest but He seems to have taken himself off the ‘net. if someone could have some recent news about him?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160421035832/http://jk-keller.com/daily-photo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVAkxmZqNNE
Dan Hanna (http://www.danhanna.com/aging_project/p.html) started the same type of project in 1991.
CREEPY
Surprisingly dull.
I was expecting a prison cell to show up halfway through withs that vacant stare at the start.
Not going to lie 20 years didn’t do you well
I think it’s more like 6 years
You see children, drugs are bad!
I don’t believe it. Deep fake.
Thought that was pretty creepy to watch
I call bullshit
I don’t think this is real. Some of those photos should have been 1”x1”. Come on.
Andrew Hingtgen what are you even saying 1″x1″?
Dan Solomon the size of the photos on the old flip phones. If you moved them to a computer they were literally the size of the screen. Lol these are all high resolution from 20 years ago? Come on it’s clever but not real. I was just trying to make a bad joke.
Andrew Hingtgen who said he was taking pictures with a flip phone back then? Could have been another type of camera back then. I know when we see “selfie”, we automatically think of our cell phone but he started this before the word selfie was a thing.
Andrea Jacobs lol it’s fake.
We look angrier as we age.
Be more interested to start as a baby.
Scary shit that ✌?
Wow, I can’t believe a human being can go 6 1/2 years with wearing a tie or even dressing up.
20 years ago, “selfies” weren’t a thing, and neither were the devices that take them.
It says in the video Jan 2000-July 2006. Not quite 20 years
I couldn’t get past the first year, it was probably a month
Thats 7200 photos and when played over 8 minutes would be 912 photos viewed per minute.
We had digital cameras then….