SELF-PORTRAITS
In my final year in photo school, I
found that I really liked the look of long-exposure and multiple-exposure
shots. I was also going through an emotional time and wanted to express
my feelings in my photography. I wanted a model to photograph, and not
feeling comfortable with directing people to move in certain ways, I ended
up setting up my tripod and posing for myself. I would often go up into
the woods surrounding town and find broken down abandoned houses to shoot
in and around. Usually, I didn’t show my face in these photographs. The
ones where I did show my face came at a later period, when I was more comfortable
showing my work to my fellow classmates each week. Taking these self-portraits
really was very cathartic. |