Jessica Somers

Another amazing artist who is working with self-portraiture and alternative photographic processes. I love her work as well.
Check out more of her images here.

Elizabeth Raymer Griffin

I met Elizabeth at the opening reception for the f295 conference. Her work is amazing. Here is a link to her website. She has agreed to be in the self-portraiture book.


The image here is a pinhole platinum print and is from an older series.

Wet Plate Collodion Self-Portrait

This is an image that I have always loved and decided to try it with the wet-plate collodion process. I have had some very positive responses to it.

Joyce Tenneson Quote

"I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out something that is indelibly you and authentic - like your thumbprint. Its going to have your style because there is no one like you."

Joyce Tenneson has a new book coming out Joyce Tenneson: A Life in Photography: 1968-2008. Apparently it includes many of her self-portraits. I will see if we can get it for the library since she will be speaking at the Academy next semester.

Julie Heffernan

I came across Julie's work in an article in Modern Painter magazine. The quote below is from Little John Contemporary.

“Julie Heffernan is known for her lush and sensuous large-scale figurative (and still life) paintings that at first glance seem to have stepped out of either the Italian or Spanish Renaissance or 17th century Dutch genre still-life or grand manner landscape painting. However, Heffernan’s concerns are clearly of the late 20th Century as her symbolism references a combination of psychological issues surrounding feminism, gender issues, class structure and motherhood.

Heffernan strives to expand our notion of beauty and present one that permits women to see themselves as more complex, mutable and in control of their experience. Her work is rife with potent symbolic meanings; the womb/motherhood, infant/Jesus /religion, interior-exterior/human psychology-life.”

Amberlyn's St. Brigid's

I've asked if Amberlyn would be willing to contribute some of her self-portraits in my self-portraiture book. I love these. They are really creepy yet very intriguing. The eyes are so haunting. The crucifix looks as if it has an amputated limb.