a very talented photographer asked me the simplest question of all: “Why do you do what you do?” I sat in silence for a moment and my memory took me back to a an exact moment in time, the moment where I knew the power of a camera. I was 5 or 6 years old and my uncle was a well established photographer, we were on a family outing to the country side and he had his camera with him. I was following him, not because I liked him, but because I wanted him to take my picture! He was always photographing his kids and he never, not even once pointed his camera at me. I was determined to have him photographed me. I thought that if I was to walked right next to him, the two of us alone, then he had no other choice but to take my picture. I was wrong. As we were walking, we saw this five year old, country girl, standing on the street and he asked her if he could take her picture. He was so excited to take her picture, but she looked at him and with a determined no she ran away. I stood there looking at him, in my mind I was screaming at him: “DON’T YOU SEE ME?? I AM HERE, TAKE MY PICTURE!” but I said nothing and he kept on walking.
20 years later, and after collecting only a handful of pictures of me as a child, I asked my husband for a camera, and I started a Self-Portrait project. I photographed myself for two straight years before I pointed my camera at somebody else. I do what I do, because I know people want to be celebrated & remembered.
Here are my latest set of self-portraits.
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