Portraits in Photography
These photographs are portraits from various projects from fall semester in Advanced and AP Photography. Advanced students explored project themes such as “Three Methods of Self-Portraiture” and “Inspired by Text” for this whereas Kayla Gathers in AP explored the topic of “Identity” in her work. This is a selection of one image from each student’s series of works. Please feel free to reach out to them individually for more information and to see more work.
Kaiya Jefferson, '21, "I'm not sad": I embedded text from Latitra Wideman's (Jacob Blake’s sister) speech into my siblings' bodies to comment on the policing of innocent Black people and their bodies. This pose also connotes to images we've seen countless times of Black men with their hands up who still get murdered by law enforcement.
Isa Ionazzi, '21: This image is the third of a three part self portrait project. I combined a traditional portrait of myself from my first shoot, with a more abstract portrait from my second shoot. Through Photoshop, I aimed to create an image that speaks to the feeling of internal chaos.
Marley Mills, '22: “You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right — that his judgement and opinion of you are correct.” I repeated this text from Toni Morrison’s "Song of Solomon" across my image to show how hard it can be to move on from someone you gave your all to. This text for me represents the blame that we put onto ourselves after ending a relationship. I wanted to display this feeling of moving on and lifting yourself up after a traumatic relationship.
Hannah Joe, '21: My Living Still Life images are the second series in my self portrait project. Dramatic and staged, I created these photographs by incorporating objects that are meaningful to me with my body in different ways, and focused each image around a significant color.
Kayla Gathers, '21: "During this pandemic, I have had a lot of time to think, and while I appreciate this time for reflection, the perpetual introspection has occasionally left me feeling divided or separated from myself in some way. In this self portrait, I wanted to capture the feeling of having opposing forces within myself."
Anastasia Beauchamp-Domeyer, '21: This photo was a self-portrait. I decided to have the photo in black and white to show a more serious side of me that not everyone sees.
Emily Endo, '21: In my collage, I used my shadows to depict the idea of constantly looking at what's next in life. The bottom left shadow is a younger and more playful me looking up at my current self. The last group of shadows shows my future with the uncertainty of who I will be or what I will be doing.
Nina Salomon, '22, "Window to the Soul": In my photo I decided to have the viewer only see my eye because of the saying that you can tell a lot about a person from their eyes. However, in my photo, the viewer doesn’t see my eye looking directly back at them. There is something that is being hidden from the viewer.