In 2012, I felt the earth move beneath my feet where I did not choose to step. I slipped into a depression, the kind, if you know it, that’s sticky, that blankets everything. I decided to make a project of it – a daily regimen of self-portraiture, a penance that must be completed once daily, to force myself to examine my own person. To make this penance complete, I was to use the 8x10 camera – the farthest thing, in my mind, from a snapshot camera – the 8x10 is a camera that has to be meditated on for even just the act of setting up. I did this daily for an entire year, and then some – it was hard to stop once I started. These are a selection of images from that body of work.
Lisa Elmaleh Photography
Lisa Elmaleh, 1984, USA, lives in West Virginia and photographs with an 8x10 camera across the United States and at the Mexico Border.