This woman takes hilarious anti-selfies by playing dead at famous tourist landmarks
Apr 26, 2019
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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When you visit a famous landmark, the first thing you’re likely to see is a horde of tourists snapping selfies all over the place. Artist Stephanie Leigh Rose visits these landmarks, but she takes anti-selfies: weirdly hilarious images in which she plays dead. She brings them all together in the project titled STEFDIES and it’s a stance against selfies and the mindless self-absorption they carry with them.
As Stephanie explains, STEFDIES is “a photographic performance art series that chronicles a life.” Her anti-selfies strive “to get back to the roots of what a photograph was intended to be- a captured moment in time.”
“The series provokes discussion on mortality, the function of photography, and stirs the imagination. Nothing is premeditated or prepared in these photographs, the shot is captured in the moment as it occurs.”
When shooting these photos, Stephanie doesn’t use any special gear or lighting, and there are no special conditions for shooting. Unlike selfies, where people tend to pose for a while and try to find the angle from which they look best, when Stephanie sees a moment or a place she happens to find particularly provoking, she just plays dead and takes an anti-selfie for her STEFDIES project.
“That is the beauty of this series, each photo is just a blip in a day. Nothing less, nothing more. It is the truest sense of what I believe photographs should be- tangible physical proof that ‘I was here.’”
I love it how in some photos people are staring at Stephanie, and you can read the “What the hell?” written all over their faces. But for me, although these photos are wacky, they are way more fun to see than regular selfies. After all, I like wacky stuff. On the other hand, it’s kinda concerning that, in some photos, people don’t seem to pay attention to her. Would it be the same if something actually happened to her? Maybe it also tells us something about the self-absorbedness of people today.
Check out more STEFDIES photos below, and make sure to see more of Stephanie’s photos on her website, Instagram, and Facebook.
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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27 responses to “This woman takes hilarious anti-selfies by playing dead at famous tourist landmarks”
Funny, who is the photographer? Quite obviously not her ;-)
Tripod and timer?
FINALLY! For gods sake this is a Photography website and NONE OF THESE ARE SELFIES! Seriously people, the term is a little to loose at this point, it pretty much encompasses all photos. If you are not holding the camera and pointing at your SELF….it is not a SELFie. A picture someone else takes of yourSELF is just called a PHOTO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHNx2VVDDnE
I think you can take “Selfie” to be short for “self-absorbed”. Fits perfectly.
John Andrew I was thinking that too, but in some of them she seems rather a long way away from the camera. At least longer than I would leave the camera alone?
That’s a whole lot better than people showing their backs stuck right in the middle of a landscape. I’d rather laugh than be annoyed.
She needs one of those fake “arrow through the head” props.
Shaudi Doddie !!
Vacation Goals ♥️?
That’s me when I go on holidays. All that travelling and walking tires me out. Letting me sit in front of the TV with a KFC dinner plate is the best holiday for me.
Very good idea ?
Looks more like drunk then dead to me, but whatever :)
Hilarious.
Not to be that guy: But it isn’t a selfie – it might be a self portrait, but not a selfie ;)
Why call it anti-selfie, oh yeah – try to go viral
A selfie is a photo you take yourSELF of YOURSELF. who wrote this? Why are you confused?
Originality.100%
The San Francisco City Hall one ?
Hillarious!! I’m mostly concerned with how the ground smelled in the zoo…
Boring photos of some pretending to be interesting. I don’t see the difference really.
The one by the Golden Gate Bridge might be pushing the taste envelope, given the number of suicides that occur there.
This looks eXACtly like a series by Camille McOuat, “It Was So Beautiful I Died” http://camillemcouat.com/index.php?/projects/it-was-so-beautiful-i-died/
Nice pull. Camille’s are much better, from a fine arts photography perspective.
Yes, totally!! Camille’s are much more interesting!
Fantastic. I love it. It is unique even with McQuat images that have a different flavor and message.
Lighten up, kids. It’s funny.
Maybe she’s just drunk? ?