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 and then went on a traditional whale hunt. During that time, he took 3,214 photographs at five-minute intervals (even while sleeping, using a chronometer), mimicking a “photographic heartbeat”, with the pace increasing during intense moments. The site that he put together, , initially displays all of the images in a large mosaic, but once you’ve entered the site, viewing possibilities seem endless. Images can be filtered by cadence, color, context, concepts, and cast, viewed by day, hour or minute, or just simply watched as a slideshow the entire way through.