Spring 2022
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Your portrait
Before the invention of photography a portrait had to be drawn, painted or even sculpted. To make a portrait puts the person as the subject and although cameras are ubiquitous, being caught on camera can be uncomfortable. On the other hand, choosing to be portrayed brings a person face to face with the idea that someone else thinks I am worth photographing. Deliberately asking another person to take time to make a portrait can be an experience that provides personal insight as your internal voice comes into play, maybe raising barriers or worries.
Real steam
Just can’t resist
Although I am concentrating on portraits I am compelled to photograph flowers, places, objects large and small. I now have a quite large collection of photographs which for simplicity’s sake are not on display publicly on the site. If you are interested in being able to view these, email me at simon@lensnorth.com and I will share a password to the hidden world of lensnorth! If you already have the password, then click the link below …
Inside view
one hundred faces
If one person’s portrait can speak volumes about them, can one hundred portraits on one topic give us a library? With encouragement from others I have set off to make portraits of Preston Faces with the aim of printing and displaying publicly.