Vintage Portraits
These photographs are from another era. For a brief period of time, I fancied myself a jewellery-maker. Really, it was just a way to vindicate the absolute inner magpie of mine that refused to throw away any single shiny thing. I had all these bits and pieces of broken jewellery, peacock feathers, and various other chachkis I clung onto for just in case it made a cool thing. After a few months of organisation and noodling and practice, I’d made a vast collection—feather fascinators, gemstone earrings, shitty necklaces. Vintage was very in at the time, so naturally that was the direction for the shoot. Yes, the file sizes are tiny. Yes, the editing is... interesting. But I did learn a whole lot.
Slideshow: Self portraits
The set is a curtain I hung on the back wall and some security lights I fixed to a tripod. I didn't have a remote, so I used a pillow on a chair to set the focus and dashed back and forth to the camera, using the 7-second timer. Is one photo out of focus? It is. What's up with those false eyelashes? They looked awful unless from that angle. Can you even see the jewellery? Nope, not really. But it was an awesome, tiring, ridiculous 7 hours in my bedroom learning how to take self portraits.
