AUTORETRATOS . SELF-PORTRAITS
As in piloting a vehicle, my experience with photography feels lessened, if I'm not directly touching the equipment: I prefer operating a stick shift, and I work best with a camera in my hands. Self-portraiture is therefore somewhat of a challege: I don't love my tripod or my remote. Everything I love best is shot by hand, including all the photos presented here. Often, I use a little Nikon point and shoot, with a rotating lens.
I'm not one to believe all that hype about expensive photography equipment. Someone on Flickr (I wish I could remember whom—please drop me a note, if I'm quoting you) had a really great note about how no one ever approaches a painter to say, "I bet you make fantastic paintings with that brush."
That's a perspective I value.
My friend, photographer Jack Radcliffe, always tells me the point is perspective. He says that, especially when I argue I've had no training whatsoever in this field *s
These are some of my perspectives of myself, over the last three years.
~Emmanuela
Original Text and Photography © 2011 Emmanuela de León, Canéla Jaramillo Ph.D., Dust Jacket Press. All Rights Reserved. Enviar Correo . Contact