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The Whale Hunt
Last May, photographer Jonathan Harris spent 9 days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, joining them as they prepared for and then went on a traditional whale hunt. And in one of the coolest uses of Flash I've seen in a long time, Harris decided to document and present his work in a very non-traditional way. From the photographer's personal statement: I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant "photographic heartbeat." In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat. [cross-posted at MultimediaShooter] 
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