By Day: A Self Portrait
I am passionate about many forms of art: dance, drawing, design, music. I am especially drawn to music since I am that night soul known as a “dj” who keeps people dancing until the AM hours. The one art I never really got into was the “photography thing.” In fact, I would often say, “the only thing I like about photography is disposable cameras.”
Then, in the past few years, amazing things happened. First, I got an iPhone and began taking pictures of the most ridiculous things including tons of self-portraits. Second, I became obsessed with Instagram, so I was still taking pictures of the most ridiculous things including tons of self-portraits. Third, I found out about the Atelier program at the Griffin Museum of Photography. That’s when I discovered that even the more ridiculous kind of pictures can be made beautiful once you know how to compose them and how to look. Finally, I discovered I could make my self-portraits a whole lot better by learning from the work of photographer Jen Davis, whose self-images go beyond society’s definition of beauty deal with issues regarding identity and body image and wind up being most beautiful.
This series is a collection of self-portraits inspired by Jen Davis’s colorful and soft usage of light, that reveal a more personal side of me beyond that of the “night soul who keeps groups of people dancing until the AM hours.”
