Inspiration: Self-Portraits 1
Day Sixty Four by this is waar.
During my collection process off of flickr, I noticed something. Weird. As I was going back & culling through the images I realized I’d only chosen 1 self-portrait that wasn’t done by a female photographer. I started to dismiss this, as I’m more prone to “dreamy” images & as a girl, looking for inspiration for my self portraits, I was more likely to look at portraits by other females. Logical. Except I decided to find 1 or 2 more male self-portraits that I really liked. And I started searching through flickr.
Female self-portraits far outweighed male submissions to various self-portrait groups. Go to flickr & poke around for yourself. You’ll see what I mean. In fact, I found several groups dedicated to female self-portraits, but not a single one dedicated to male self-portraits (I searched specifically for it, and got general self-portrait groups for the first 3 or so result pages)… This seems exceptionally odd to me since the field of photography used to be very dominated by males. Of course, this is changing as we female photographers keep joining the ranks, but I still found it odd that I couldn’t find many male self-portraits in a modern photography forum environment.
With that in mind, I collected a variety of male self-portraits that I found artistic & wonderful & am including some of them in this post! : ) I was going to group them all together & follow up with female self-portraits, but I wanted to mix them together because I think the effect is much more inspiring!
Self-Portrait 10/5/09 by indiphoto
Self-Portrait 2008 by Crystal.
Drowning by kelia is a photographer.
Tags: art, examples, Inspiration, Photography, portrait, self-portrait
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