Horses

Portraits are the classic mode of photographic expression, but this project sprang from a notion to create images from photography “sessions” that have an element of co-conspiracy to them rather than where the work emerges as the result of a static relationship between the subject and the photographer and the respective roles they play: the subject is the subject, the photographer the photographer. In other words, these photographs are the product of “sessions”, which is a music-oriented word, as opposed to “shoots”, and this is something I want to keep in my mind when I’m preparing to take pictures for this series: it should be fun for everyone involved. If it is, then whoever I photograph will be able to show something of themselves even if their face is covered by a horse’s head.