portrait

PORTRAIT

ALEXA HICKLIN

For this project, I did a lot of experimenting. I took pictures of things I normally wouldn’t take a picture of. Zoomed in, zoomed out, up-side down, sideways. I tried it all. As the project progressed, I found that I didn’t like what I was doing. The pictures were good, they just didn’t fit my vision for what I had mind for my project.

So I decided to go a different direction and do portraits. Some can argue and say that portraits aren’t exactly documentary, because the en-vironment and the person is ‘set up’. This is true, in some aspects. Some of my portraits do feature the person posing, but I do have pic-tures where the subject is caught off guard and doesn’t even realize I took their picture, which is what I’m going for in my photo book.

I want the portraits to have a natural feel to it. Smiling and posing is what I’m trying to stay away from because that, to me, doesn’t seem ‘au-thentic’ enough to be labeled as documentary. I wanted to have studio and outside of the studio portraits in book to add some sort of variety to it.

THE

FACESRUSH

THE

FACESOF

RUSH