ƒ/11 | 1/160 | ISO100
Self-Portrait | RVK | 2020
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ƒ/4.5 | 1/100 | ISO 400
Self-Portrait 21.2.20
This is me. This is the face of someone hurting. I’m not feeling my best right now. Things get into my sphere and they bring me down. The world is facing so much at the moment and somehow I can’t separate it from me. I feel like people are scared, or they are dumb, or they don’t know how to do anything but act corrupt. And to top it off, there is a virus that threatens to infect and kill quite a large number of people.
Visual Diary: An Explanation
I recently ditched my iPhone in favor of a Nokia 3310. With this comes the freedom to get away from some social media that was feeling more like an advertising platform than a sharing platform as of late. Bye bye Instagram. But the question remains: how do I, as a photographer, continue to share some choice photos that might not be representative of my professional work?
The answer, it seems, is to return to something that I was actively pursuing from 2006-2017 over at kingoden.blogspot.com. So, in that spirit, but updated a little for the times I live in now, I give you this space.
The photographs here are going to be an attempt to go a little more in depth than an average Instagram post. I want to talk a bit about my process, what the photo represents, and why I took it the way I did. Hopefully, the results will be satisfying to you and I, alike.
Self Portrait, 2018