Portrait nominee

We all must be exhausted. The year 2020 will go down in the history books as one of the hardest and deadliest years in modern times . The global pandemic has tested and pushed all of us to our limits.

This series is an attempt to capture the post exhaustion that most of us are feeling and continue to experience .

In the last remaining months of 2020, i began to reach out to friends and acquaintances, asking if i could take their portrait while sharing the past year experiences. The overwhelming level of anxiety, fear, death and instability was common and shared. We have all lost something, loved ones, friends, relationships and jobs just to name a few.

All photos are shot outside with natural light at a safe distance to keep everyone comfortable .
I am planning to continue this series through out this current year.

Originally from Jacksonville Florida, Ian moved to Atlanta Ga. in 1984 where in high school he discovered his love for photography. He then went on to study at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia. Now 25 years later he is still shooting and living in Athens Georgia. Ian spends his time shooting commercial work and his personal fine art projects all around the southeast of USA, with his shepherd husky mix, Daisy.

From the 1995 to 2005 ian was represented by Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta Georgia.
From 1992 to 2001 ian was photo consultant and custom printer for Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M.

Ian has had many exhibitions over the last 25 years. In 2000 in won the American PHOTO national Portrait competition .
In 2018 his series, " You don't know what it feels Like" won first place in the PDN Nations Black and white portrait contest.

His new portrait work, " Exhausted " is based on the overwheing exhaustion we have all experienced during the year 2020 in relation to the Covid-19 Pandemic.