I’m so delighted to have a sugarskull photo juried in to the Praxis Photo Arts Center’s “The Portrait” exhibition, juried by Sandra Chen Weinstein. This is the first time that one of my images from this body of work has been displayed in a juried art show and it’s an honor to have been selected. If you are in Minneapolis this month please do stop by.

Show synopsis:

“Making portraits is more than a physical form, it’s a silent communication in understanding and respect between the photographer and the subject.  There’s an internal emotion and fire of the soul that you try to capture. - Sandra”

In her book, Portraits and Persons, writer Cynthia Freeland describes three essential elements that constitute a portrait: “(1) a recognizable physical body (2) an inner life, i.e., some sort of psychological or mental states and (3) self-presentation, or the "posing.”

Praxis Gallery presents photographs that celebrate the aesthetic and conceptual considerations involved in the creation of the portrait: revealing personal narratives or new anthologies through the artistic representation of the subject.