Day 1
Last year I set out to make a self portrait every day for 365 days. After April, I stopped making self portraits. I failed.
After I lost my grandmother, while I was with family, I let myself slip a few days. For a while, I decided fuck it, it’s my project, I’ll make up those days and all will be well. But I went too long in between, got too far behind, and by May, I had officially given up.
Fuck failing. Welcome to the start of my 2016 365 project.
Looking back, I can see in many ways why I wasn’t able to succeed, and why, in some ways, the project wasn’t really my own. I was inspired by one of my favorite photographer’s completed 365 to undertake my own, and in a lot of ways, I was too influenced by her work. It wasn’t my vision, it was me emulating hers, and because of that, I was rarely happy with the work I was producing.
When I started the project, I had literally never used controlled artificial lighting. Due largely to the three winter months I spent on the project, I developed a more in-depth understanding of using both artificial and natural light, as well as the process behind self portraiture.
I’m a much stronger photographer right now than I was exactly one year ago, and so much more of my identity comes through in my photos. This project will be mine. There will be no theme. Each photo will be unique unto itself, but each image will be uniquely me.
To those of you who followed along closely last year, thank you so much for your love and support. It means more than I can say to have my friends and family appreciate, critique, and follow my work, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.
A lot of changes are brimming in my life right now, but to start this project, I decided to give an unfiltered look at my life as it is. This is me exactly as I awoke this morning. No makeup, no hair-brushing, no retouching, no pants, no bra, no shame. Just me.
Looking forward to seeing what 2016 holds, and I’m elated to GET THROUGH THIS PROJECT. 365 days. 365 self portraits. Go.
(End of the world’s longest caption.)
Day 1
Last year I set out to make a self portrait every day for 365 days. After April, I stopped making self portraits. I failed.
After I lost my grandmother, while I was with family, I let myself slip a few days. For a while, I decided fuck it, it’s my project, I’ll make up those days and all will be well. But I went too long in between, got too far behind, and by May, I had officially given up.
Fuck failing. Welcome to the start of my 2016 365 project.
Looking back, I can see in many ways why I wasn’t able to succeed, and why, in some ways, the project wasn’t really my own. I was inspired by one of my favorite photographer’s completed 365 to undertake my own, and in a lot of ways, I was too influenced by her work. It wasn’t my vision, it was me emulating hers, and because of that, I was rarely happy with the work I was producing.
When I started the project, I had literally never used controlled artificial lighting. Due largely to the three winter months I spent on the project, I developed a more in-depth understanding of using both artificial and natural light, as well as the process behind self portraiture.
I’m a much stronger photographer right now than I was exactly one year ago, and so much more of my identity comes through in my photos. This project will be mine. There will be no theme. Each photo will be unique unto itself, but each image will be uniquely me.
To those of you who followed along closely last year, thank you so much for your love and support. It means more than I can say to have my friends and family appreciate, critique, and follow my work, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.
A lot of changes are brimming in my life right now, but to start this project, I decided to give an unfiltered look at my life as it is. This is me exactly as I awoke this morning. No makeup, no hair-brushing, no retouching, no pants, no bra, no shame. Just me.
Looking forward to seeing what 2016 holds, and I’m elated to GET THROUGH THIS PROJECT. 365 days. 365 self portraits. Go.
(End of the world’s longest caption.)