The Art of the Self Portrait

A good self-portrait should tell a story about the subject. In my case, it would not be complete without bringing in some element of my Photography, which is where my Heart and Spirit lie. In this study of....Me, I used a Photo App to help me create my vision: a self-portrait I took in the mirror d

Wondering what the future brings to us. Wondering if the future has already happened, but we haven't experienced it yet. And giving a nod to M.C. Escher. Thanks for taking a look! Right now my immediate future is a trip to the Galapagos Islands starting out from Seattle tomorrow morning and retu

The three photos shown here represent me. The pictures are nothing without me, yet you don't really see who I am. Can anyone else really know you? The whole you? Each of these photos were taken at a bus stop. Most of my adult life, I would take the bus to and from my office in downtown Chicago. I d

As a student of photography I began shooting self portraits early on, finding opportunities in many photographic assingments. As I moved from film to digital I continued to shoot and look for the iconic self portrait images, made much like (Lee Friedlander: Mirror of Myself, 1965) and (Andre' Kerte

These two images are part of a video short based on self-portraiture, perhaps to be part of a longer project at some point. The past six months have provided a couple of those "hinge" moments in life, where foundations and assumptions get turned in unexpected directions. The first image is from May,

Usually I don’t plan my self-portraits and make them when certain force comes, just capturing emotional state in the moment. I guess, in this case, I was feeling melancholic and hid my face behind bird wing feathers as a symbol of freedom and distant observation, using double exposure technique.

Last year, the gas company condemned my entire gas connection and shut everything off because they considered all my appliances unsafe. This happened during the two-week Christmas/New Year period, which meant I couldn't get anything replaced until after the holidays. Thus, I was without heat or a st

I feel that in my later years I strive to present a friendly cheerful persona to all, because I am that.. But my deeper self with its anxieties, fears and loneliness remains hidden and I think that my friends and close ones have just this one sided and incomplete image of me

1. Paulo Coelho Autograph. Back in 2010, I was invited to a yearly party by the famous Brazilian Paulo Coelho and his wife Christina Oiticica in Melk, Austria. I had been active in Coelho's blog, and we were 100 readers from all over the world who got the invitation to be part of a private party fo

Blindfolded, Seeing without sight. Canon A540. The gambler. Seeing with incomplete information. Canon EOS 1n. X-Ray. The ability to see the imaginary. Canon A540

I took this photograph suring the pandemic when I grew somewhat of a beard for the first time in my life. I made the conection between this self portrait and the hundreds of people I have photographed and decided to write a statement about my experiences. After seeing the first few pictures I deci