The LXIV self portrait - photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

The LXIV self portrait - photogravure print - The Weekly EditionMaking self portraits has become important for me for a handful of reasons . I enjoy the challenge and later i am happy to have my likeness over time. I also find them reveling in a way that continues to surprise me. I recommend making self portraits to anyone who has yet to give it a go. Hand pulled photogravure print is made with Charbonnel Noir 55981, Bistre, Sanguine, and Madder lake red inks on Hahnemhle copperplate paper. I printed an edition of

By this time I was so in love with my surroundings that gazing out the window to the building across the street felt important and beautiful

I could only see parts of it through her scarf and made this photograph in anticipation of the others to come that day

I had some friends with plenty of experience in the genre

I admire the self-portrait work made by my closest friends and felt like making my own self-portrait as I look out to what is possible

some less so

When I was traveling in Scotland for the second of Two photography commissions in 2011 I came across a store on a back street in Edinburgh away from the " mile" and all that comes along with tourist areas

I find public playing fields like this to be very beautiful in a haunting way

not because I dislike the work made in these spaces

Hand made by Ray Bidegain

I trust that for at least a short moment you were taken back in time upon viewing my picture

Little volumes of beauty just waiting for you to take home and add to the shelf

it is 4x5 inches on an 11x15 sheet