Quirky GIF Portraits Indulge a Photographer’s Need for Spontaneity

Romain Laurent’s One Loop Portrait a Week project, features portraits that are built as Cinemagram-style combinations of still and animated elements within the same image.

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/12/gif-portraits/?viewall=true

The committee-driven and regulated world of advertising photography can be a constraining force on the creative mind. After moving to New York and picking up ad work, Romain Laurent was itching for a more spontaneous outlet. He started One Loop Portrait a Week as a way to satisfy his urge to improvise and get a break from the second-guessing that creeps into even personal projects as they get “serious.”