Cindy Sherman

A selection from Cindy Sherman's series Fairy Tales and Disasters

levi van veluw

work by levi van veluw. "all completed and photographed within a time frame of 24 hours and without any digital manipulation....levi van veluw's photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. his works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. the work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. the image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object." see more here.

[all levi van veluw. from the series material transfers.]

robert rainey

robert rainey's "two way" project. as he explains: "i am attempting to subvert the traditional genre of couples portraiture by inserting myself as the generic, blank, antiseptic, counterpart to a person who is portraying themself as a 'unique entity'." see more here.

[all robert rainey. from the series two way.]

levi van veluw

levi van veluw's 'landscapes'. see more here.

[all levi van veluw. top to bottom: landscape 1. landscape 3. landscape 4.]

sidney lo

'what are you wearing today?' is a year-long project by sidney lo obsessively documenting his daily wardrobe decisions. see more here.

[all sidney lo. from the series what are you wearing today. march 10, 2007-8.]

melis bursin

melis bursin's self-portrait project: "an ongoing observation that shows the subject’s full awareness of the camera. holding the shutter release cable, serving as a connection to the camera, the individuals face the audience, eyes fixed on the camera, establishing an obvious confrontation between the subject and the viewer." see more of melis's work here.

[all melis bursin. from the series self-portrait. top: kimmy. bottom: anna.]

face your pockets

face your pockets is a website created by timur akhmetov + yulia yakushova that invites contributors from all over the world to scan what's in their pockets as well as themselves. see more here.

[all from face your pockets.]

thomas humery

thomas humery's autobiography project. take a peek at more of his work here.

[all thomas humery. top to bottom: stockholm, april 2006. madrid, june 2007. cologne, january 2004.]

johan nieuwenhuize

self-portraits by johan nieuwenhuize. see more of his work here.

[all johan nieuwenhuize. top to bottom: zelfportret #010. #008.]

nicholas + sheila pye

work by husband and wife collaborators nicholas + sheila pye. see more of their work here.

[all nicholas + sheila pye. top to bottom: semi-erotic 2 + semi-erotic 1. 2007. pale blue-grey 1. 2006. the voracious. 2006.]

ilia ovechkin

interesting digital projects by ilia ovechkin. the middle one is a photograph of the artist resized to 1 pixel and then selected, shown as a looped video projected onto a wooden panel. see more of ilia's stuff here.

[all ilia ovechkin. top to bottom: lake under a mountain. 2008. (still from) one pixel self portrait, selected. 2007. internationally known pleasures. 2007.]

jonathan monk

for his project self-portrait jonathan monk took one negative and sent it out to 50 photo labs around the world in order to produce 50 slightly different "versions" of himself. see more of jonathan's work here.

[all jonathan monk. self-portrait #6. 2002. 50 color 11 x 15 cm glossy photographs produced from negative #6 by different photographic labs (the world over).]

levi van veluw

an interesting play with portraiture in the work of dutch photographer levi van veluw. see more of his work here. and a big thanks to chrischa for passing along this link.

[all levi van veluw. top to bottom: colors. dots.]

vlatka horvat

croatian-born, new york-based artist vlatka horvat makes some pretty interesting stuff. these are all photographs from a series where she hides behind objects in her studio, creating "a paradox of posing for the camera while at the same time trying to hide from its gaze." you can take a peek at more of vlatka's work here.

[all vlatka horvat. from the series hiding. 2003.]

wendy red star

wendy red star makes these over-the-top dioramas and photographs herself sitting in them. not much work online but a little more info here.

[all wendy red star. top to bottom: spring. 2005. winter. 2005. fall. 2005. indian summer. 2005]

ellen harvey

a nice series of paintings about photography by ellen harvey called invisible self-portraits. each painting is based on a polaroid taken by the artist of herself in a mirror. you can take a peek at more of these here.

[all ellen harvey. from the series invisible self-portraits. 2006.]

tomoko sawada

for her i.d. series japanese photographer tomoko sawada took multiple self-portraits via photo booth, constantly altering dress and physical appearance to create more than 400 "versions" of herself. personally i'm a sucker for any photo project that involves a grid. you can see more of tomoko's work right here.

[tomoko sawada. from the series id 400. #301-400. 1998-2001. top: detail. bottom: full image.]