Greetings!
If you’re seeing this, chances are you’ve been part of the Self-Portrait Project at some point in time, whether by participating in it, or being one of our valued partners, or by having supported us in some sort of way. This year we celebrate 10 years of the project, and I’d like to take the opportunity to share our story with you.
The Self-Portrait Project (SPP) was founded with social justice ideals as its roots and a love of photography as its driving force. Before creating SPP, I was a co-founder of the multi-media non-profit Other Worlds, which sought to document case studies of living, thriving alternative economies around the world.
![The Self-Portrait Project turned 15 on March 7. Here’s SPP by the numbers:
Founding date: March 7, 2009
Total portraits taken: 1,163,504
Total activations: 1051
Unique locations: 641
Countries shot in: 12 (U.S., Mexico, Haiti, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Palestine, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Australia)
U.S. states shot in: 22 + D.C. (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Vermont, Connecticut, Hawaii, South Carolina, Florida)
Mirrors broken: 2
Mirror iterations: 39
Camera remotes lost: 1
U.S. patents: 1
Marriage proposals made/accepted in front of the mirror: 1/1
Oscar winner Self-Portraits: 11 (Ellen Burstyn, Robert Redford, Hilary Swank, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Casey Affleck, Geena Davis, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan)
NSFW portraits taken: [indiscriminate number]
Most images shot in one night: 4,665 (Sundance Awards Night 2019 (2 units))
Most images shot in one location: 187,628 (Empire Stores; Dumbo, Brooklyn)
Infographics made: 5
Animation by @tommyas2884 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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