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Daily Self Portrait 2012-2013
Copyright
Lisa Elmaleh
2025
Updated Feb 2021
Topics
Black and White, Photography, Spotlight
In 2012, I felt the earth move beneath my feet where I did not choose to step. I slipped into a depression, the kind, if you know it, that’s sticky, that blankets everything. I decided to make a project of it – a daily regimen of self-portraiture, a penance that must be completed once daily, to force myself to examine my own person. To make this penance complete, I was to use the 8x10 camera – the farthest thing, in my mind, from a snapshot camera – the 8x10 is a camera that has to be meditated on for even just the act of setting up. I did this daily for an entire year, and then some – it was hard to stop once I started. These are a selection of images from that body of work.