There comes a time in any person’s life when they feel they’ve learned enough. Whether someone is a doctor, a football player, or a person with many interests, they’ve encountered this common obstacle. As a photographer, it’s very easy to get stuck in a bubble of safety and comfort. You might have discovered a specific […]
Author: Taissia Iv
Taissia is a professional photographer and educator.
I came across Gina Vasquez’s work at the very beginning of my creative journey in the photograph realm. Her incredibly vibrant and deeply touching self-portraits blew me away. Many of her shots featured things like light bulbs glowing on the beach, goldfish floating in balloons, and hundreds of birds decorating the sky. This phenomenal creativity […]
Self-portraits. You may associate them with vanity and arrogance. You might even consider self-portraiture an overrated genre and dismiss it completely. In reality, taking compelling photos of oneself is far more than a desire to look gorgeous. There is an abundance of photographs which feature the artists themselves expressing negative or neutral emotions; though seemingly […]