Self-portraits features 1960’s and 50’s garments from my daily wardrobe acquired to celebrate having emerged from aspects of a long-term depression after a recent move from New York to Miami where the example and friendship of people helped reconfigure old patterns. The series also features unclad imagery. Nineteen-sixties fashion advertisements are references for modeling dresses, and both dressed and undressed poses are a mix of free-form experimentation and references to early 20th century studio photography.
Some dresses have a label, others do not, and some are handmade. Photos are titled according to the information remaining on the garment pictured.
For the images included here, I worked with hair & makeup artists. The hairstyles are from specific requests and the makeup is the artists’ answer to my wish for a weird and/or futuristic look. The self-timer was used for all but one session where the hair & makeup artist released the shutter at regular intervals
The mastectomy scar is an inadvertent implicit interruption to feminine beauty ideals. Some photos have a cane and sunglasses, objects included in the spirit of the work of Malian photographer Seido Keita whose sitters often brought favored material items to include in their portrait.
Makeup : Lili Sm/Lovestory and Alan Rowe Kelly
