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• Find Your inspiration: It could be a genre of photography, a certain place or
  anything. Immerse yourself in it and document your relationship with it.


• The Binding Factor: Several self portraits either have a consistent component
  while several do not. While you figure what works the best for you, it could be
  interesting to have a singular factor that binds all the photographs together.


• Use Your Equipment Creatively: Each piece of equipment has its own characteristics
  that could help you make unique portraits. Explore different ways you can hold,
  modify or lodge your equipment to get interesting results.

On Making Portraits with Yourself as the Subject

in shooting the images and processing

them in the darkroom.

I printed the images in two sizes.

The bigger ones are almost life size and are

like a projection of me when I stand in front

of them. The smaller ones, on the other

hand, are more intimate.

As I went ahead with the project, I was

able to see what I could do with myself by

turning the camera within. My portraits

reflected how I was a part of the landscape

instead of just casting a shadow on them.

— As told to Natasha Desai

To view more images from Giacomo’s work, you

can visit his website http://www.giacomobrunelli.com

The birch trees were

almost shining in the

background, which is

what drew me to this

setting in the first place.

The form that my

shadow took, looked

the Etruscan vases that

were made hundreds of

centuries ago.

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