Self-portraiture is a lone act. The photographer is the model, the model is the photographer. There is no one else present in the making of self-portraiture. It is a work of isolation, disconnection from the rest of the world. You are your own model. This project's aims were to portray this sense of isolation and disconnection through self-portraiture, but to also isolate the viewers themselves when viewing the work. This came about by using the direct gaze - something that Jacques Lacan referred to as "anti-movement". This paranoia of being seen or being watched literally stops us in our tracks, and we cannot move. This is what I want to communicate through the work - to isolate each viewer from the world around them as I present to them my isolated self. They watch a photograph that is watching them.
