Another set of self-portraits. Self portraits really have be..
Added 2020-05-18 17:40:10 +0000 UTCAnother set of self-portraits. Self portraits really have been very therapeutic and enriching in my life and I feel a lot of creative passion for it. I recently bought a new camera quite spontaneously and this was the first time I got to use it. I am absolutely delighted with it! :) For anyone curious I am now using an Olympus OM-D E5 ii with a 14-150 lens. I can easily connect it to my phone, so I can actually see on my phone what the camera is capturing :) Lately I have been feeling very critical of the art I am creating and theres moments where I feel theres something missing, especially when I am behind the camera photographing other people. It feels at times that I am reaching and searching for something, but I don't quite know what it is and I am unable to grasp it... This set however... it hits the right spot! I find I got a lot of images I really love from this and that theres meaning to them somehow... They make me feel something. I also had a few different Objectives when creating this. In the beginning (where I did the 'shapes') I was just flowing but then I had a desire to play with angles, which made me really look at myself, at the things that I sometimes don't find beautiful about myself and things I could actively love more... so then it turned somewhat into a quest of showing the realness of me. How my stomach makes rolls and how the skin texture is different on my bum and all these little things were always told not to have and not to be... I want to show (especially to women) that we all have these things and that they can be so beautiful... I recently photographed a woman with a rather voluptuous body type and I really enjoyed it! But she is quite insecure about certain things of her body and has trouble seeing how her wonderfully curved body could be anything of beauty. And it made me really sad... Because I saw so very much beauty in her... To be honest I am not entirely sure where I am going with this... This text already has gotten much longer than anticipated. I guess what I am trying to say is that we all can create more space in our lives to actively love ourselves. Because I have found very strongly that loving yourself inspires others to love themselves too, and how beautiful would the world be if we all were aware of the ever abundant love within ourselves...?
