Rememory
In this work I have chosen to deliberately subvert traditional expectations of portraiture by asking my sitters to close their eyes. Each of my subjects is asked to intently imagine an event of personal significance, thereby physically inverting and psychologically internalizing their gaze. To facilitate this, the photographs are made in complete darkness so that the sitters might more easily negotiate an imaginary mind space free of the camera’s appraising gaze. The photographs are captured on film using a traditional large format camera, and are then scanned, digitally toned and output via an inkjet printer.

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