30 year selfie project - man takes a photo of himself every single day

Karl Baden started snapping a simple black and white photo of himself three decades ago, then repeated it each day for the next three decades.

His Every Day project officially turns 30 on Thursday – and he says he has no intention of stopping despite already amassing almost 11,000 photographs.

The images, a contemplation on mortality and ageing, has prompted some to dub the 64-year-old Boston College professor the accidental ‘father of the selfie’.

Prof Baden, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, isn’t a huge fan of comparisons to the duck-faced portraits that fill Instagram and Facebook, but recognises the value of the ‘selfie’.

The project, has been exhibited in art galleries in Boston, New York City and elsewhere over the years.

‘If it wasn’t for the selfie craze I’d probably be slogging along in anonymity as usual,’ Prof Baden joked. ‘Which is sort of what I had expected.’

What makes the project work is that it reflects a number of universal themes, from death to man’s obsession with immortalising himself in some way, said Howard Yezerski, a Boston gallery owner who has exhibited the work on two occasions.

Full story: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/23/man-takes-a-photo-of-himself-every-single-day-for-30-year-selfie-project-6467454/