I got into picture taking as a kid when I received my first Little Tykes camera. Now, as an adult, I have fallen in love with image making. For my final academic photography project, I wanted to push myself to abandon my comfort zone and create images that disobeyed some of the classic rules and conventions of portraiture.
What can we glean about a person from an image that had been pushed into abstraction? How does partially hiding the subject change the emotion and meaning of a photograph? Most portraits attempt to convey something about the sitter’s personal identity, but I strived to do the opposite. My portraits obscure the subjects, both visually and expressively. In doing so, my images pose as many questions as they answer.