Dramagraphies

This week, I was having a flick through 'F Stop' and the featured artist was really interesting to me. The photographer was Michel Lagarde, and his featured pieces were a series of self portraits. The reason I have chosen to blog about his work is because I found it really appealing how every single image was different to the next. He was dressed differently, in a different place, pulling a different expression. I could not help but look at every single image to see quite how much they differed. 

The creativity with Lagarde's portraits are second to none, and have really inspired me to look more into self portraits. It has shown me that taking a picture of yourself does not have to be simple and it does not have to be vain. His way of showing himself in different environments is creative and really interesting to the eye. "Talking about my work is quite difficult for me, lets just say that this project is a result of practising different forms of art and that I wanted to put together: in theatre, both as an actor and a decorator - painting, photography and the pleasure of ''story telling''. Recomposing photos where all these different forms of art are present, but most of all showing a snapshot of images in my head which have been formed since childhood." 

"It is not so much of myself that appears in "Dramagraphies", it is rather the different roles that I have interpreted as an actor. Having that distance is important as less of me project in these images rather than keeping them within me. Naturally, the images come from within me, but I am not relating my life, I am having fun interpreting them without any regard for my physical appearance, which I tend to deform more than anything else."