Experimenting with Self Portraits through lockdown 3.0

My love of photography has always been in capturing the world around me.

The people around me, specifically trying to bottle their personality into an image.

I’ve rarely taken photographs of myself, and often chose not to be in them when others stood behind the camera. Through the 3rd UK lockdown however, from January to around April 2021, I began to experiment a little with self portraits – and found it incredibly therapeutic.

Its almost always when the kids are in bed, so lighting isn’t often great but I’ve learned a lot, and I do enjoy a dark, moody image. It seems to have a soul in ways that brighter images sometimes cannot carry.

But anyway, these are my choice few from Lockdown 3.0 :

See what I mean about the dark and moody?

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