A site with over thirty years of self portraiture<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I wrote about photographers’ propensity for self-portraiture a while back<\/a>.<\/p>\n Check out the work of Arno Rafael Minkkinen<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n The site design is sheer agony to get through, with big pictures constantly reverting to small originals, but it’s worth the effort.<\/p>\n To wet your appetite, here is an extract from the site’s brief Preface:<\/p>\n I consider myself to be a documentary photographer. If you see my arms coming up from under the snow, I am under the snow.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading Arno Rafael Minkkinen<\/span>