Witness.Earth
Porter Yates is a photographer, and Dan Melamid is a director. They have been friends for many years, and both share a passion for travel and visual storytelling. Through Witness.Earth they have collaborated to develop a new style of photographic presentation to music. This new technique fuses slideshow, time lapse, and stop motion imagery; all set to the rhythm of unearthed and vintage songs.
Developed as an experimental process for Kanye West’s song “White Dress”, Dan incorporated his travel photos with Kanye’s music to create a never before seen style of music video.
Porter has traveled and photographed far away regions of the world. He saw potential in the technique and how it could be applied to his work. This method provides a level of immersion never before experienced and is unique in its ability to both comprehensively describe a place and provide intimate details of the setting.
From this the two friends created a collaboration and Witness.Earth was formed.
Kanye West – White Dress