I’m feeling particularly enthusiastic after the last few days of my life. Yesterday’s post with the park photos felt like a huge weight off my back and the feedback I received from people made me glow like a little worm of the glowing type. Today, I want to share something that’s deeply personal but also extremely public. It’s all of the photos from the 52 Weeks Projects that I have started, and in some (2) instances not finished, over the last 3 years. The basic premise is that you take a self portrait each week for an entire year. Some people are more adventurous than others and I guess I took that adventure to another level.

All of these photos tell some sort of story about me. Early on in the project, I was interested in simply the idea of the project but I started running out of creative ways to light an image quite quickly and I have to admit, until the Lego photo, I’m still a bit ashamed to this day that those first few images were so lame.

The only thing I felt I could convey for 52 weeks through these images was a story about me. I’m aware this is going to be a really long post so I won’t attach the often quite long text that originally accompanied each image but if you’re interested, you can check out the flickr post and the responses I received from my photographic friends on flickr via my stream here. By the way, mulletgod was my online name, it’s referenced in a few of the images (obviously in some, not so obviously in others).

I am really proud of this body of work and just earlier I was looking at the folder where all of these images were stored and I have nearly 23GB of originals and final edited images for this project. It’s something that I put my heart and soul into for many hours and as I’ve mentioned previously, it’s something that gained me quite a bit of attention. I was interviewed by the LA Times as a result of the Cookie Monster photo which overnight gained nearly 100 000 views and I’ve had offers by many different people/organisations asking to license images for their use. I had an exhibition in Wollongong (where I was living at the time) and even taught people how to do lighting after they saw that I had the chops to do it!

I’m enthusiastic still about taking self portraits, but one a week feels a bit too much for me. I think when the inspiration strikes, you’ll see more of these.

So without any more fanfare, here it is.

This is the flyer for my 52 weeks exhibition. I’ll be getting them printed in the next few days so if you want me to send you one, give me a yell. :)

There will be plenty of free food and booze, and not to mention, 52 photographs of yours truly!

There will also be a bunch of blurb books for sale as well which I’ll probably make available online as well for anyone who’s interested. At the moment, it’s looking like it’ll cost somewhere near $50 or so which makes it a little expensive, but trust me, I’m not going to be making any money from it!

I appeared in a small article on the LA Times Technology blog after the now “world famous” Cookie Monster photo!

Check it out!

You’ll have to scroll down a bit to find me.