--- title: Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting description: In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris took a self-portrait each day and posted them to his website. 2012 marks year fourteen of this inspired and ever-evolving art project that documents a life well lived. canonical: https://time.com/3784538/jeff-harris-self-portraits/ author: Natalie Matutschovsky article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2012-01-03T09:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T08:45:21.830Z article:section: World og:title: Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting og:description: In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris took a self-portrait each day and posted them to his website. 2012 marks year fourteen of this inspired and ever-evolving art project that documents a life well lived. og:url: https://time.com/3784538/jeff-harris-self-portraits/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a954113845a2dd5/69879b7b428a9e8d84cc8a9b/1500x1000_jeffharris_tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: 1500x1000_jeffharris_tout og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting twitter:description: In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris took a self-portrait each day and posted them to his website. 2012 marks year fourteen of this inspired and ever-evolving art project that documents a life well lived. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a954113845a2dd5/69879b7b428a9e8d84cc8a9b/1500x1000_jeffharris_tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting > Sponsored content. 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Jeff Harris documented his life by taking a photograph every day for 14 years_ by [Natalie Matutschovsky](https://time.com/author/natalie-matutschovsky/) ## Natalie Matutschovsky Jan 3, 2012 9:00 AM UTC by [Natalie Matutschovsky](https://time.com/author/natalie-matutschovsky/) ## Natalie Matutschovsky Jan 3, 2012 9:00 AM UTC In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris began a project in which he used his trusty Olympic Stylus 35mm film camera (he’s since gone through six) to take a self-portrait each day and then posted the results on his website. The project, which began long before the widespread popularity of blogging, Facebook and Flickr, allowed viewers to follow one photographer along on his adventures. “I didn’t want 365 images of me sitting on the couch each day,” says Harris. “There could have been that tendency, especially during the cold dark winter months to stay inside all the time, but this project inspired me to get out there and seek out interesting things.” This year, Harris embarks on year fourteen of what has turned out to be an epic, inspired and ever-evolving art project that documents a life well lived. The images range from completely solitary, auto-timed self-portraits to photographs inspired by a collaborative spirit with whomever Harris encounters on a given day. Regardless of the mood, location or activity at the center of any given image in the series, they all show a marvelously open and generous approach to both diaristically recording and sharing everything from intimate moments to athletic adventures with a wider audience. In fact, Harris evokes the full range of physical experiences a body can encounter: from mundane inactivity to joyful dives to his body being open on the operating table. “I see no reason to not make a self-portrait each day,” the photographer says. “I’m always around and always free. It’s kind of like going to the gym—it flexes your muscles and keeps you in shape.” _Jeff Harris’s work was recently included in_ [ _Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography_](http://www.thamesandhudson.com/9780500543894.html) _by Susan Bright published by Thames and Hudson._ _Visit_ [_jeffharris.org_](http://www.jeffharris.org/) _to see the project in its entirety. Harris_ _also has an interactive_ [_Journal_](http://www.jeffharris.org/journal/) _that allows readers to submit writing about a day from their life. Their stories are juxtaposed with his self portrait from that same day._ ## Transcript My name is Jeff Harris and I'm a photographer from Toronto, Canada. I am doing a Self- Portrait Project everyday for the last 12 and half years. I'd always had these New Year's resolutions about keeping diaries, and my diaries tended to fizzle by February. But I realized I had the five minutes in a day it took to take a self portrait. I started in 1999 and a lot of the early shots were really very repetitive and boring. But the longer I did it, the stronger my visual sense became. I've just kept going to this day and it's one of those things, the longer you do it the harder it is to stop. [ MUSIC ] I started out when I was a high school teacher and then worked in the magazine industry. But, I was very much a nine to five person and. The project itself was a challenge for me to get outside and not make it look like I had a cubicle job, but that I actually was running around and doing a different interesting thing each day. [ MUSIC ] I might have had, you know, one or two a month that were particularly nice to look at and those were the images that kept me going. For every 25 bad pictures you take, there will be five days of interesting images. I enlist the help of other people to take my picture. Not only enlist the help of friends and family, but I go up to celebrities and. And asked them to take my image. I come across celebrities at film festivals, and after music concerts, and I only would take the time to pursue people I'm actually interested in. If I can emulate a bit of that celebrity and put that into the photograph, I feel like I've done an interesting job. And. Gene Simmons took my photo, so I stuck my tongue out. Billy Idol took my picture and I made a sneer like him, and then there's been a series of pictures Michael Moore has taken of me, and I blocked myself from the camera. All that they got is a little credit, no different than if my grandmother took the picture. I have a picture of me jumping on. Off of speakers at a rock concert, that's my picture for one day, and the picture of me the next day is me in the hospital because I ended up fracturing my foot in the fall. So, I'm really obsessed with that notion of shock and change and, that. Even, jumping into a lake for me has that same nature of catching yourself. In mid- dive, and I have a lot of pictures of my diving into water. And this project has encouraged me to do what's known as the polar bear dip, which is jumping into frozen water. So there's many pictures of me jumping into lakes with snow and ice around, and I don't think I'd be doing that, if I didn't have this project. I got diagnosed with Cancer in November of 2008. Taking pictures has been a therapeutic experience through that. You know, your life gets turned completely upside- down, and the only consistent thing that remained throughout that time is the fact that I was taking a picture everyday. I kinda had fun with it. And I was like, if my body's gonna go through this total nightmare, I might as well just make the most of it. And I brought my camera in with me to my radiation treatments with me. I've had three surgeries, and my doctors took pictures of the surgeries, and I've had my x- rays as part of the project. [ MUSIC ] I had a tumour in my pelvis and, to get it out they had to sever my sciatic nerve and that has left me permanently paralleled in my left leg. So now I'm on crutches. [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] Since getting diagnosed with Cancer, I made an effort to not be a patient 24 hours a day. Canoeing down a river, my brother and I came across this tree that was suspended out, like six feet above the water, and I. Climbed up the tree and we took an image and it looks like an image that a fully physical person would take. It's really a challenge for me, knowing how I would be zipping around the city to make compelling images and then all of a sudden be trapped. [ MUSIC ] With mobility issues and not be able to get around. It gives me something to strive for. If there's a fence I'm gonna climb it or if there's a river I'm gonna canoe down it. I'm still going. 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