A site with over thirty years of self portraiture.
I wrote about photographers’ propensity for self-portraiture a while back.
Check out the work of Arno Rafael Minkkinen who seems to have made a career of the genre. That is not meant in any sense to be derogatory as his photography is simply outstandingly original.
The site design is sheer agony to get through, with big pictures constantly reverting to small originals, but it’s worth the effort.
To wet your appetite, here is an extract from the site’s brief Preface:
I consider myself to be a documentary photographer. If you see my arms coming up from under the snow, I am under the snow.
I treat the medium the same way a street shooter does. What happens in front of my camera happens in reality. There are no double exposures, no digital manipulations.
But I also look at the world through the mind. “What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera.” It is the line I wrote as a copywriter for a camera campaign before becoming a photographer.