Edward Honaker

 

He is a photographer who has garnered attention for his self-portrait photographs of his own mental health experiences and aims to visually share emotions that words cannot explain. I was actually attracted to his photographs when I saw them. I feel a sense of solitude in many of his works.

I thought from his picture that his technique was good such as his use of shadows, light, and reflections. In the photo above, I think he fixed the camera with a tripod and shot at a slow shutter speed, the person was blurred, and as a result, I could not read the person clearly, which led to a sense of uneasiness.

Next is this picture. This photo changed the way I think about portraiture. By putting the cracks over the face where people pay the most attention, we don't get as clear an image as with the photo I talked about before. From there we get negative emotions such as loneliness and anxiety.

This photo was the most shocking and also the most inspirational. The inspiration I got from this photo is the collage specifications. It gave me the idea that I could actually cut, paste, and combine other photos instead of processing them in an app. This photo is neatly cut vertically and horizontally, but I thought it would be interesting to tear or crumple it up and wanted to try it with this assignment.

The last thing I felt from his photos was about black and white. I thought the black and white did a good job of expressing about his mental health. However, in my photos, I wanted to use both black and white and color to make it clear what the main subject of the portrait is.