Hands face_space_

Our hands and our face play a key role in how we communicate with and show ourselves to the world, much like how our relationships with the spaces we inhabit or choose to experience tell so much of who we are and who we want to be. What do we choose to conceal, and to reveal? Who are we? A photographic essay of exploratory portraiture of people in their places. I work together with my volunteers to make a creative portrait that breaks away from the notion of a face with head and shoulders in a portrait orientation. My volunteers can be as identifiable or non-identifiable as they choose both through the image, the image title, and their words. Their space can be as vast as a nature reserve or as small as a nook on a shelf, and as obvious as a sitting room or as abstract as their imagination. Images tell us so much, and so differently to words, and together in their own relationship and inhabiting a shared space, they can tell us so much more.