Portrait of an accountant-backpacker in 1,600 selfies

Patrick Hamilton Walsh has taken a selfie every day at the same time for the past four and a half years.

Portrait of an accountant-backpacker in 1,600 selfies

Some 1,600 ‘phoneographs’ later, he has a unique portrait of his life and travels around the world.

Patrick, 36, and originally from Strabane, Co Tyrone, decided to start documenting his life in May 2010. Calling the project ‘This is Me@3’, he took a photo of himself every day at 3pm as he travelled the globe, broke a world record, graduated from two courses, published two books — and married the woman of his dreams.

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