Performative Self-Portraiture and Queer Intimacies

Self-Portraiture • Photography • Intimacy • Queer Interruptions

This is a loose collection of works, connected together by process and focus. The process is self-portrait photography, the focus is the body, gender, sexuality, emotion, space, and time. Throughout the collection, I explore my gender expression, sexuality, emotions, and anxiety—sometimes overtly, sometimes more subtly. Always present is the relationship between my body and societal conceptions of masculinity, femininity, queerness, intimacy and beauty.

The performer becomes both at once the voyeur and exhibitionist, the photographer and model, creating a safe space for self-exploration, -examination and -expression. The results are presented as individual photographs, series or special sequences, often influenced by the greatest self-portrait and portrait photographers in art history.

“To pose before one’s own camera is to ask, endlessly: Who am I, here, now? Who might I become if I shift my shoulder, if I avert my gaze? Every gesture, every tilt of the head, every concealment of flesh or exposure of skin is a form of argument—a suggestion, a provocation, an intimation.”
— Daniel Hill, On the Nature of Self-Portraiture