Photographer Does a Portrait Shoot with Fatboy Slim in Less than 30 Seconds

When you’re tasked with taking a famous person’s photo, you often don’t have much time with the actual person to go through a trial and error process and figure stuff out. Photographer Philippe Echaroux wanted to take things to the extreme and see if he could photograph a celebrity in less than a minute total.

Echaroux is used to setting challenges for himself. In the past, we’ve shared videos that show him taking a celebrity style portrait using only an iPhone and a $10 lamp, as well as his Street Studio project where he took pictures of strangers on the street as it they were famous.

This most recent challenge didn’t have to do with inadequate gear or making somebody look famous. Instead, he simply wanted to see how fast he could possibly capture a quality celebrity portrait of musician Fatboy Slim after his performance at the GetAKool Festival.

Here’s what turned out:

His goal was to photograph the celebrity in under a minute. From the moment Fatboy Slim shook his hand in greeting to the moment the shoot was done, Echaroux actually managed to get what he needed in only 24.825 seconds.

To see more from Echaroux, check out our previous coverage of his work linked above, or head over to his website by clicking here.

Image credits: Photographs by Philippe Echaroux and used with permission.