A Hooded Portrait (3)

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Posted by ConsciousnessJunkie on Tue 5 Jul 11, 10:10 AM to the Kinky_Camera_Group group.

por·trait

–noun

1. a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.

From The National Portrait Gallery competition T&C:

'photography concerned with portraying people with emphasis on their identity as individuals'

So, I've just put my entry in for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize this year, and it got me thinking about what I fancy trying to shoot for next years competition.

I'm interested in the concept of a hooded portrait, but it strikes me as almost an impossibly difficult thing to approach and photograph with regards to it's success as a "portrait".

Has anyone produced a portrait that features someone hooded or otherwise devoid of features? Or has anyone seen another artist do it? Care to post a link?

Or does anyone have any general thoughts about how it would be accomplished?

Edited Tue 5 Jul 11, 10:14 AM by ConsciousnessJunkie

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5 Jul 11, 10:26 AM
tanken
UK(NR), 2 yrs

I've taken a pic of a boxer with a hooded top but you can still see his face

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5 Jul 11, 10:35 AM
ConsciousnessJunkie
UK(N), 5 yrs

redgerbil wrote:
I've taken a pic of a boxer with a hooded top but you can still see his face

I was really talking really about some sort of fetish style hood where a large proportion of the subjects identity is removed.

How would you photograph someones identity if you can't see it?

5 Jul 11, 11:59 AM
Gilles_de_Rais
UK(EC), 3 yrs

By making that hidden aspect a core point of their identity - a la 'gimp' in Pulp fiction?

... Or Zorro and his mask, for that matter...

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