Since its origins photography has enabled people to make sense of themselves and their environment. In one sense all photography, whether it is directly about the  photographer or not, is an exploration of identity and/or  place.

Identity or parts of identity may be classified by any number of things such as religion, gender, or ethnicity.

Loss of identity can result in increased levels of generalized anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, a loss of self-confidence, social anxiety, isolation, chronic loneliness, all of which threaten our ability to connect with other people.

You are the one who defines yourself only your thoughts and actions define who you are, and if you don’t recognize yourself anymore, it means you weren’t being fair to yourself.

Self Portraits

A portrait can be of your cat or your brother’s feet on a skateboard. It should say something about the person you are photographing or the person you are creating with the camera.

the difference between a self-portrait and a portrait is seeing themselves. for example a selfie is a smaller branch of self-portraiture. A self-portrait considers the inferiority of the artist; it’s a moment for self-reflection, to pause and to look at yourself.

Since the beginnings of photography, artists have used the self-portrait to push the technical and artistic boundaries of the average in photography.

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