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Kerry Skarbakka is a photographer who loves to capture himself falling to the ground. It could be falling off from a ladder, falling off from a building, falling in the shower, falling while lifting weights and/or anything horrible and awful and terrible that you would never ever want to fall off of. How does he manage to take these pictures of himself? And how does he live?
The photo series, called The Struggle to Right Oneself, isn’t chopped and screwed to look like this. This isn’t trickery. Skarbakka is actually falling. He tries to keep most of his falls under seven feet and tries to do the pictures without any ropes. If he needs to be tied, he’ll wear a harness underneath his clothes and tie it to an anchor to prevent himself from slamming to the floor. The ropes are usually expertly hidden but if seen, they’ll be photoshopped out. I’ll allow that cause if I was tied to ropes I would not want to fall like this.
What’s actually amazing is that while Skarbakka frames all of his shots, it’s his girlfriend or some random stranger snapping the photo. His tip to them? “Can you press the shutter when I look most compromised?” So awesome. You can find more of Skarbakka’s mind bending work here. [Skarbakka via Wired, PetaPixel]
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I don’t know.
The last one is photoshopped. He looks far too small!! Looking at the size of the wood slats hes not that far away but is too small. The same with the train line. He should be larger.
As for the others, maybe he’s just clumsy?
yea… you can totally tell by the pixels
maybe he should do a photo shoot of stepping on different lego bricks
Ouch…the bathroom one must have hurt
I wonder if some random stranger took that photo
So technically not a self portrait right?
Self protraits that use no trickery….
1) he uses ropes where necessary
2) if ropes or whatever prop is visible in the photo they are photoshopped out
3) he doesn;t take the picture, its his girlfriend or random stranger
Soooo, how is it a self portrait with no trickery?
Yup, it’s still a “trick” even if it’s a practical effect rather than a post-production one. I like it though, it’s very clever.
Ouch!