By Max Gillies
Even before the pandemic struck in 2020, there were the selfies. Thanks to the extraordinarily good cameras built into most smartphones, almost everyone can take a decent photograph of themselves. Most of the resulting images are not great art, so what makes the self-portraits of professional artists that much better?
The answer, of course, is that they have skills the rest of us might not have — a knack for composition, technique, or finding a vantage or expression that communicates something more insightful than just “this is what I look like.”
Congratulations to all of the gifted artists represented here, and please keep your self-portraits coming.
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1. “Centered” by Nicole Woodruff
2. “Self-Portrait with Yellow Balloon” by Derek Wilkinson
3. “Silenzio” by Erica Calardo
4. “Am I Chicken George?/I Am Chicken George” by Bryan M. Wilson
5. “Wild Tooth” by Mary Chiaramonte
6. “Inspiration” by Nathanial Skousen
7. “An Empire of His Own” by Max Ferguson
8. “The Green Man” by Marcus Callum
9. “In My Life” by Julianne Jonker
The above article and art originally ran in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine (subscribe here).
