Founder’s Journal
Turning the lens inward I have dedicated the time and practice of taking handheld self portraits across different forms of lighting. It is an interesting concept to look at photographs of yourself that you executed and see someone else looking back at you. Perhaps an alter ego or a parallel version of who I am. Yet it was not forced or posed in a sense of ego. Tilting of the head, angle of gaze, shift of perspective, all equally unforced while studies of light and form. Pure observation meets the observer. Pushing boundaries of skill as a test of self will and aptitude.
From the very start I had realized that I was documenting myself in every image either through indirect bodily inclusion, indirect presence though light and shadow, ambient light displacement, absence of in frame presence brought to light by subject reaction, or occasional presence in glass or water. With every click I was silently documenting myself along with what was being seen by my lens.
Taking the time to accentuate this phenomenon by intentional study I found an uncanny yet embracive positioning in the results. Few of the frames were of me rather they were the observer on this side of the veil being seen by the ghost in the wall. Even now looking at this with more comfort than before it is a strange feeling to see yourself in a way that you yourself find to be foreign to the way you see yourself yet there it stands before you as a testament to your life staring back at you. Undeniably I am the man behind the glass however I do not recognize his appearance. I merely settle into the role that is me. Authentically and unapologetically.