Faceless

Its non conventional to photograph yourself without your face, as it generally hides your identity. However some photographers have explored this option within self portrait. John Coplans is known for his series of black and white self portraits of his naked body. He captured detailed images of specific body parts but never his face, focusing on the physical and human qualities of the body and nothing more. The interesting things were the shapes his made with his body, twisting it in ways to experiment with composition.

I wanted to take a different approach to a faceless image, and make it still personal but also still hiding identity. I took a photo of myself covering my face with another photograph, technically I am not showing my physical face but a photograph of my younger face. I didn't like the outcome, I think the photograph I was holding wasn't big enough to make a good image. It started out as a decent idea but I won't be continuing with it.