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Portrait Projections

  • Photography · –
  • Finalist · Photographer's Forum, Best of College Photography 2014

A photography series investigating how we read portraits when the subject is partially obscured or transformed. Models are lit against pure black backgrounds with patterned light projected onto their faces — removing environmental context and isolating the relationship between pattern, texture, and recognition.

Shown at the Harry Nohr Gallery, UW–Platteville (2014 and 2015), Blurring the Edges at the Dubuque Area Arts Collective (2015), and Rendezvous Coffee & Tea, Dubuque (2015).

Untitled 1 / 8

  1. Black-and-white portrait of a woman with a honeycomb pattern of light projected across her face.
  2. A woman in profile, her face and hair covered in scattered flecks of projected light.
  3. A woman looking back over her bare shoulder through a projected lace pattern.
  4. A woman in glasses with a vertical strip of projected light dividing her face.
  5. A woman's face half in shadow, the lit side dotted with projected water droplets.
  6. A woman facing the camera, her face covered in a projected pattern of leaf shapes.
  7. A woman gazing upward with lines of sheet music projected across her face.
  8. A woman facing the camera through a projected grid of soft squares.

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