Reflected Identities at the Palm Springs Photo Festival
For the past few months, I have been working on a new series. I started taking portraits of my friends in the Southern California area with an idea in mind. As with a lot of projects I start, they tend to change and take on a life of its own by the time I am ready to show it. That was the case with "Reflected Identities". I began the series (I didn't have a title or direction) by photographing my friends for an androgynous series but the more I shot, the more I realized that the portraits were molding into a reflection of me. Last week, I learned that I was a finalist in the slide show competition at the Palm Springs Photo festival so I attended the festival and spent a few days there. I was in disbelief when it was announced on Thursday night that I won the grand prize! There were so many beautiful and powerful slideshows included and I was just thrilled that I was selected to be among the finalists. When I submitted the show, I had less images than...