Self Portraits
Well, some self-portraits plus a little help from some friends.
© Brett Dorron 2009. All rights reserved.
Looking back on life, you are often able to identify key points of transition or influence that effect a change in your consciousness. Things that aren’t always necessarily evident at the time. One seemingly strange one for me, was looking back on my teen years, through my old photo albums, from a photographer’s perspective. It one day became apparent to me, that, at that age, I had been the documenter amongst my group of friends. I expect many of my friends photo albums from that time will contain photographs of them and their antics, as taken by me, but my own photo albums and collections are almost entirely through my eyes. I am all but non-existent within them. As if I myself did not exist or interact. Like I just passed through as a passive watcher, recording events, without participation. They are full of photographs of other people’s exploits and hurdles. Other’s possessions and conquests. Their high-jinks and revelry.
This group of images above may seem somewhat self indulgent, and I guess in some ways it is, but I felt the need to make some restitution for past omissions. If I am to document my world, it needs to contain a record of myself.
Here I am.
Brett Dorron
