‘Passage of Time’ Projects

• OPALKA 1965/1-∞ (1965–present)
  Roman Opalka, after every day of painting numbers in his studio, photographs his face. If only we could see documentation of the entire sequence.
• Carving: A Traditional Sculpture (1972)
  Eleanor Antin diets for 45 days. It is a performance piece, photo project, sculpture and a seminal work of feminist art.
• The Brown Sisters (1975–present)
  Nicholas Nixon photographs the Brown sisters.
• The March of Time (1976–present)
  Diego Golberg and family sit down on June 17 for a family ritual.
• One Year Performance (1980–1981)
  Tehching Hsieh punches a time clock hooked up to a camera in a gallery every hour on the hour for a year. A huge Thank You to Alberto Frigo for sending me the link! If you would like to buy me the One Year Performance DVD-ROM, send me an eMail.
• Portrait of Louise Anna Kubelka (1980–1998)
  Friedl Kubelka documents the development of her daughter, from birth to adulthood.
• The Downward Spiral (1983?–1997?)
  "Maria Ramos" as photographed by the New York City Police Department.
• Everyday (1987 February 23–present)
  Karl Baden is second only to Roman Opalka for the logevity and glorious perfection of his daily photo project. [added 2008 January 21]
• Time of my Life (1991 June 01–present)
  Dan Hanna spins with the sun in this daily aging project. [added 2008 February 04]
• daily performances (1999 July 24–present)
  Marc Tasman receives a package of Polaroid film and begins a ten-year process of daily performances in Polaroid
• La Photo-Sculpture (1999–present)
  Odile Marchoul discovers 'Photo-Vision' and decides to make identity pictures weekly.
• Noah K. Everyday (2000 January–present)
  Noah Kalina uses his video camera to try and pinpoint the stages in his life when he's changed. He contacted me a while back to eat food and talk all things obsessive self-portrait related, and now the project's online. Noah's a stand-up guy.
• Metabolismo alterado (2000?)
  Héctor Falcón seems to start bodybuilding for art's sake, though I can't be totally sure as I don't understand Spanish. [added 2008 January 21]
• Alarm Clock Self-Portaits (SnoozeButton) (2001?–2004?)
  Dean Baldwin hacks his alarm clock to shoot a digital photograph when he hits the snooze button. Check out his sleeping partners!
• Hocking DPP (2001 September–present)
  Pete Hocking takes a daily self-portrait and posts it to the internet. He also finds that he becomes the object of the bear community's desire, as well as a few jackasses'.
• Me (2001 November–present)
  Ahree Lee makes a nice video of three years of everyday photographs. [added 2006 September 08]
• eyemachine (2002 January 01–present)
  Andy Luginbühl takes the portraits, and then set up a system to animate the images with the eyes lined up. I did this with a year's worth of images manually a few years ago. I'd never do it manually again...
• 09h09 (2002 September 18–present)
  Jean-Michel Gobet takes a photo at 09:09 every day and blogs about it (yeah, that's right, blog is a verb). What's more amazing is that he's awake at 09:09 every day!
• Lebensbilder [Life Pictures] (2002 December, 2003 October, 2004 April–present)
  Tom, Ralf, and Michaela make the daily photo a German family affair.
• O's Daily Photo (2003 January 01–present)
  Orin's image collection was randomly found while I was self-servingly looking at my standings in various search engines. She definitely has more interesting t-shirts than I've seen lately. And that domain name is hilarious.
• Daily Jason (2003 January 06–present)
  Jason Fletcher let me know in January that he had started this, and I give him credit for sticking with it. This is the 'Daily Photo Project' with goofy faces and on crack.
• John Stone Fitness (2003 January 06–present)
  John Stone pasty and flabby --> --> --> John Stone tan and cut. Quite possibly the freakest thing I have ever seen.
• Russian DPP (2003 August 02–present)
  Vadim Malguine shaves his head and starts taking photographs.
• Daily Marqs (2003 August 27–present)
  Markus does the daily photo 3/4 shot.
• Jeden Tag eins mehr... (2003 September 25–present)
  German Stephan H. Schumann is yet another daily shot-maker.
• Twindex (2003 November 23–present)
  Welcome at[sic] the Daily Photo Project from Sven and Tobias Staude! Twins doing daily photos. It'll be really sad when one dies.
• Daily Photo Project (2003 November 23–present)
  Phil McCombs is another daily dude, though he has some serious lapses in documentation.
• Ellora Klein (2004–present)
  Arno Klein's working on the full documentation of daughter Ellora. Includes video. [added 2006 September 08]
• Self Portrait (2004 May 14–2005 September 03)
  Trey Bean documents his self portrait via Quicktime. [added 2005 October 30]
• :18 Project (2004 July–2006 January)
  Christine Gatti takes two photos 18 minutes after every hour, every day for 18 months. She takes one self-portrait, and then one of the environment she is in at that time. Amazing work.
• Olivia Project (2004 July 25–2004 December 25)
  Imelda's friend Olivia Juliana Lyles DeLuna gets her picture taken and her mom posts it on the web. How very cute! I think this project stopped at Christmas-time...bummer.
• Bent Lips (2004 July 25–present)
  Priscilla smiles, and smiles, and smiles. Let's hope she keeps it up for longer than a year! Sadly, gone.
• Me, Myself, and I > 27up (2004 September 16–present)
  Matthias Hupp starts the craze in Germany, in Black & White.
• Daily Fratze (2005 August 04–present)
  MC Winkels from Germany...
• Daily Fratze (2005 August 07–present)
  Michael Simons from Germany is apparently inspired by MC Winkels from Germany... Now a site that "is a small community centered around daily photo projects. You'll find a place with room for narcissism, discussion, in short: documented lives."
• Jeder-Tag (2006 January 01–present)
  Anthoney from Germany is yet another white guy who looks like he's in IT doing a daily photo.
• Russell Higgs (2006 July 21–present)
  Russell's only been at it for a couple months, but I am flabbergasted at the results so far. [added 2006 September 08]
• Everyday from Birth (2007 January 22–present)
  David P Craig's parents attempt to make him a daily-documented boy. [added 2008 January 21]
• everyday (2007 February 07–present)
  Mark Curry's another fine young lad making his way along the daily photo journey. [added 2008 January 20]
• Cheri Cheri Lady (2007 March 21–present)
  Kotla: “I’m imitating others, because I can't change.” [added 2008 April 21]
• 13 to Infinity (2007 April 07–present)
  David Hinds makes it over 9 months and hopes to continue FOREVER! [added 2008 January 06]
• Documentation of Decomposition (2007 December 19–present)
  Sean Hunt MacLean adds his face to the growing collection of Daily photographers. [added 2008 July 30]