SHEN WEI, THIRTEEN DAYS IN 2004
When I first moved to New York City, I started photographing myself. I wanted to document my footsteps along this journey, like a visual diary: to document my first year of life in the city. But I didn’t show these images until 2017…
BERNICE MULENGA, SELECT SELF PORTRAITS, 2019-2022
Bernice Mulenga is a British-Congolese photographer with a distinct aptitude for archiving, documenting and interrogating the world around them…
ALEXIS RUISECO LOMBERA, AQUI AYA, 2017-19
Aqui Aya, 2017-19, is an investigation of place, belonging, and inherited family using self-portraiture. As I cross borders between Cuba and the United States, this series of photographs reflects on displacement as a structure of feeling and an assemblage of family as a world making strategy...
ELEANOR ANTIN, CARVING: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE 1972
A landmark early feminist work, Eleanor Antin’s Carving: A Traditional Sculpture comprises 148 black-and-white photographs documenting the artist’s loss of 10 pounds over 37 days. Every morning she was photographed naked in the same four stances to record her barely perceptible self-induced weight loss…
JESS T. DUGAN, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MOM, 2005-present
Jess T. Dugan is an artist and writer whose work explores the complexities of personhood, relationships, desire, love, and family. While their practice is centered around photography, it also includes writing, video, sound, drawing, and installation…
SARAH LUCAS, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH FRIED EGGS, 1996
Sarah Lucas’s portrayals of the body have a strong sense of humour and they challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals. In Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, Sarah Lucas looks back at the viewer with a confrontational stare...
TARRAH KRAJNAK, MASTER RITUALS II: WESTON'S NUDES, 2020
Deconstructing Edward Weston’s Nudes in the form of self-portraits, the artist Tarrah Krajnak inserts herself as both author and subject into Weston’s original work…
HANNAH WILKE, S.O.S. STARIFICATION OBJECT SERIES, 1974
In 1974, Wilke began experimenting with performance art. One of her first forays into this genre was S.O.S. Starification Object Series…
ANNE NOGGLE, SELECTED SELF IMAGES
Noggles’s artwork presents to viewers new concepts of self-identity in portraiture. Her artwork explores human connection and challenges the intersecting constructs of gender, aging, and femininity…
CARRIE MAE WEEMS, THE KITCHEN TABLE SERIES, 1990
For this series, Carrie Mae Weems staged and photographed a fictional drama in which she plays the lead. The setting is always the same: a small room with a table and a single overhead light..
ANNIE HSIAO-CHING WANG, THE MOTHER AS CREATOR
Over the years – 21 to be precise – the project evolved, deepening as did the tender relationship between mother and son. The near-annual photographic traditions brought Annie and her son closer, “because we often need to recall, review and revise” both the past and future in order to make a new image…
TOMMY KHA, I’M ONLY HERE TO LEAVE, 2015-PRESENT
I’m Only Here to Leave – a phrase taken from a conversation Kha had when he met performance artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge – started out as a series of cardboard cutout images of the photographer’s face and body, which he placed into real-world surroundings…
CARLA J WILLIAMS, SELECT WORKS, 1983-1986
Making self-portraits and using instant film and prints, I knew I had complete control over the images and thus invested in them a degree of freedom that I might not have if I had thought anyone would ever see them, because I didn't think anyone ever would…
JOHN COPLANS, SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS
I photograph my body. I generalize it by beheading myself to make my body more like any other man's. Nakedness removes the body from the specificity of time: unclothed, it belongs to the past, present, and future…
TRISH MORRISSEY, FRONT, 2005-2007
Front deals with the notion of borders, boundaries and the edge, using the family group and the beach setting as metaphors. For this work, I travelled to beaches in the UK and around Melbourne…
D’ANGELO LOVELL WILLIAMS, CONTACT HIGH, 2022
Contact High offers an expansive engagement with the visualisation of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows…
MAXINE WALKER, SELECTED WORKS, 1985-1997
In her 1995 series, ‘Untitled’, British-Jamaican photographer Maxine Walker disrupts the idea of an approved womanhood through a photo booth style montage of self-portraits, presented as if taken within seconds of each other…
NONA FAUSTINE, WHITE SHOES, 2021
White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city’s once pivotal – and now largely obscured and unacknowledged – involvement in the slave trade…
LEIGH LEDARE, PERSONAL COMMISSIONS, 2008
For the project Personal Commissions Ledare answered Women Seeking Men personal advertisements posted in various New York City newspapers. While primarily serving as a vehicle for seeking out companionship, these ads often referenced phrases such as “tribute”, which only thinly disguised the subjects’ participation within an underground economy of intimacy, sexual gratification and material validation…
GILLIAN WEARING, ALBUM, 2003
The mask occupies a central place in the videos and photographs of Gillian Wearing. Wearing has employed various kinds of masks—from literal disguises to voice dubbing—to conceal the physical identities of her subjects and allow them to reveal their innermost secrets…