Fine Art nominee

I have submitted 5 images from my documentary/portraits series DISAPPEARING SOUL: SELF PORTRAITS IN THE TIME OF COVID

As a photographer I wanted to document my life during the Pandemic. “DISAPPEARING SOUL: SELF PORTRAITS IN THE TIME OF COVID” is a project that was born as a result of my isolation of March 13 through June 1, 2020 in New York City. As a doc/portrait photographer of women, my lens has always been aimed at someone else with me asking questions and hoping to break down their walls. I’ve always been a private person, inviolable. Now was the time to turn the
camera on me. Expose myself though self-portraits.
Long exposures seemed to be fitting to relate the emotions of never feeling present or totally in the moment. Is this reality? I would dress every day, apply makeup….attempt to create productivity, positivity. I’d create dinner parties in my head. This would be my experiment to convey a visual conversation into loneliness. The black borders in the image represent confinement. Quiet solitude as I watch early spring turn into summer.

Nearly two decades ago, I launched a career as a documentary/portrait photographer with a series of black and white portraits of breast cancer survivors. I wanted to document the ways female beauty can be enhanced by angry scars and indomitable courage. My images, which I self-published in the collection Body & Soul: The Courage & Beauty of Breast Cancer Survivors, garnered national recognition from the Dallas Morning News; Oprah magazine; Texas Monthly; CNN; NPR; and on NBCs Today Show with Ann Curry. I've since produced numerous other bodies of work celebrating women and disrupting prevailing notions of beauty. (In)Sight: Women Who Work Behind the Lens, featuring a series of black/white portraits of some of the most eminent female photographers and curators working today will be part of group exhibition with SohoPhoto Gallery, NYC, April 2022. My series, Gymnopédies, exposes the counterintuitive nature of botanicals, proving flowers can be their most colorful in black/white. DISAPPEARING SOUL: SELF PORTRAITS IN THE TIME OF Covid, my latest series documenting my life during “lockdown”, was selected for the cover of the International Online Publication, Eye of Photography, March 5, 2021. April 8 2021, a selection of images were chosen for the online photography magazine