Jonathan Harris is one of my favorite artists. His latest project to launch is The Whale Hunt, in which he shares his visual experience - literally, the sequential view through his eyes. “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.”
Photographic Heartbeat
Source: http://thewhalehunt.org 
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