A few months back, my friend Deborah Keller-Rihn invited me to participate in a group photography show she was curating at the Centro Cultural Aztlan. The show was part of a larger, city-wide month of photography, Fotoseptiembre. Caras is Spanish for faces. Each artist was asked to provide four portraits. I decided to create four photographs, each with two images of my subject, one with a blindfold, one without. I wanted them subtly aware of one another. They would all be seated on the same chair, and shot at various exterior nighttime locations around town. The photos were printed large (16′ x 20′) and dry-mounted to wooden cradle boards. Then I finished them with a layer of epoxy.

The project forced me to learn to play nice with Photoshop. And now I’m much more comfortable with a ubiquitous program which had been thumbing its nose at me for years.

I made a quick promo graphic for my contribution to the show.

And below are the images from the show. The subjects are (in the same order as above–left to right): Logan Magz, Antonia Padilla, Darian Thomas, and Michi Fink.