Most people would define “self portrait” as a photograph in which the photographer, himself, is the subject.

This article discusses how, over the last couple of years, I’ve come to define “self portraits” in an entirely different way. To me, a “self portrait” is a photograph that reveals something about the photographer’s true soul — his proclivities, fantasies, aesthetics, and personality. The photographer, himself, does not need to be the subject. Nor is there any requirement dictating that the photographer need appear anywhere within the photograph at all, Rather, this article asserts that a “self portrait” is a photograph that divulges something of the photographer’s inner self. | Read the article

“What do you photograph?”

Inevitably, when someone discovers that I’m a photographer, this is their Pavlovian response. It’s a question framed in an expression of utmost earnestness — as if they were asking a medical doctor to state his specialty, or an actor to enumerate the roles they had played.

It’s an Innocuous query, but one I find absolutely impossible to answer… Oh, the torment! | Read the article