Weekend Assignment

YOUR ASSIGNMENT: 3 SELF PORTRAITS (Summative Final)

Self-portraits are part of the communication process that we call photography. Photography is not just about clicking the shutter button, it is a way of being in the world; it is a form of viewing the world, exploring the world, and interacting with the world that reveals, in the process, how the photographer sees that world. Their images, therefore, reveal much about self...their likes, their dislikes, their fears, their politics, their philosophical underpinnings, etc.


So, in essence, every image made by a photographer is a kind of self-portrait; the more formalized self-portraits merely extend that line of thinking further. In this case, it is an obvious act of self-revelation whereas many photographers fail to see how much self-revelation goes on in all of their photographs.