here is my last blog post
Portrait Photography as a unique tool of self-discovery.
We live in a time where anything you can imagine is within a reach of a hand, one click away. Technologies are developing at light speed, nevertheless it often brings more anxiety than ease into our lives. And so we adapt. Waking up in the morning, the first thing we do – we put on a costume of Self. We wear a costume of successful professional, a caring parent, a responsible child, fun and easy colleague, committed partner, devoted lover, inspiring leader, a reliable friend, forever young healthy lifestyle follower, a gym enjoyer, a climate change fighter, mindful citizen, world savior and whatever else comes to your mind. We wear costumes of our professions, costumes of our roles in the family and society, costumes of who we want to become one day. We see ourselves through the prism of imposed beauty standards, in mirrored reflections of distorted phone selfies, in shapes and qualities that we believe are the best strategies to get what we want. But does it tell anything about us besides our adaptation skills? Who we are beneath all those layers? Who we really