Recently, I've thinking back to Robert Gill's project Before and After Yourself for a few months now, mostly because I couldn't remember his name and it was driving me out of my mind (albeit probably not anymore than usual) and also because it's becoming essential for many photographers to encompass the skills for video work. Gill is doing exactly this. A student of both SCAD and School of Visual Arts in New York, Gill's eye for composition translates into his arrangements for his video piece as well. For nine months, Gill worked in conjunction with nature to create his new, sculpted body. His video is both visually interesting and meditative to watch, exhibiting self-portraiture at its finest. After all, it is getting close to springtime and everyone becomes infatuated with getting those beach bodies built, so I would says it's appropriate to bring up his work as such a time as this. Not only is he thinking creatively about his video work, but he is also thinking of unique ways to shed the pounds. Defining our cultural obsession with physical appearance, Gill is using video to reveal the in-between scenes of his physical progress that links his photographs. All of the above and below catches my interest.
Check out his video:
Before or After Yourself from Robert Gill on Vimeo.
Above video and photo borrowed from beforeorafteryourself.com
no photoshop?????
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His video was very interesting to watch the variety of exercises he was doing to get this healthy body. I think it has become very critical that photographers know how to do video because of this transition into merging the photo and video worlds. Like you said in class about the MFA programs combining both photo and video into their curriculum is proof that this change is happening. When I was looking at grad schools, I noticed the same thing and was surprised to see how evident the change was.
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