As she approached her 40th birthday, Jennifer McClure decided to take stock of her life, using photography as a vehicle to explore why things had never really worked the way she thought they would.
Her previous work with self-portraits offered a basic framework for making the pictures, yet nothing could prepare her for the discovery she would make from the photographs themselves, which was the opposite of what she had expected. “I was just shocked,” she admits. “I didn't know self-portraits could take me there.”
Photographs © Jennifer McClure
Looking Inward from the Subject
Initially, McClure gravitated to self-portraiture due to the immediacy and comfort level of always having a subject close at hand. “I didn't have a huge idea for a project when I started out,” she says. “I wanted to learn photography, but I didn't love landscapes. I didn't love still life or street photography. So, I practiced on myself because I liked portraits, and I always had access.”
In her earliest pictures she experimented with a variety of styles—from Richard Avedon-influenced group portraits on white seamless to combining her face with different objects to represent emotional states. “At first, I feel like I was just getting to know the process and getting comfortable—being honest,” she explains.
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