PORTRAIT
ALEXA
HICKLIN
For this project, I did a lot of experimenting. I took pictures of things I normally wouldn’t take a picture of. Zoomed in, zoomed out, upside down, sideways. I tried it all. As the project progressed, I found that I didn’t like what I was doing. The pictures were good, they just didn’t fit my vision for what I had mind for my project. So I decided to go a different direction and do portraits. Some can argue and say that portraits aren’t exactly documentary, because the environment and the person is ‘set up’. This is true, in some aspects. Some of my portraits do feature the person posing, but I do have pictures where the subject is caught off guard and doesn’t even realize I took their picture, which is what I’m going for in my photo book. I want the portraits to have a natural feel to it. Smiling and posing is what I’m trying to stay away from because that, to me, doesn’t seem ‘authentic’ enough to be labeled as documentary. I wanted to have studio and outside of the studio portraits in book to add some sort of variety to it.
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