Video portraits combine videography with elements of still photography to produce something derivatively new. I can’t quite nail it down, but it seems that video portraits have the power to evoke an emotional response that’s different and in some ways more powerful than still photography.
Says Robert Wilson, who creates high definition video portraits, “You think nothing is happening at first, and then you get caught in the subtlety of it and you realize there’s much more there than first meets the eyes.”
In many of the portraits, the person is almost still, but what’s around the person is moving in a way that relates to the person.
Video Portrait exhibitions have been presented at Museums and Galleries for some time now. One exhibitor, Peter Wilkins, discusses his “Kinetic Portraits,” in this YouTube video from 2007:
Erica Video Portrait from charles Yesenczki on Vimeo.
At a minimum, video portraiture is an interesting trend to watch.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I don’t get it. So a still photo with a moving environment ?