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\nHome<\/a>\n\/<\/span>\nSelected Work<\/a>\n\/<\/span>\nSolitude<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
\nPortrait<\/span>\n2023<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Solitude<\/h1>\n\"Solitude\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Eleven portraits of people who live alone by choice, each made in a single sitting, in their own rooms, with whatever light the day offered.<\/p>\n

I asked each subject for one hour and one room. No lights, no assistant, no second visit. What I wanted was the version of a person that appears when the performance of company is set down.<\/p>\n

One hour, one room<\/h2>\n

The constraint did most of the work. An hour is long enough to run out of things to say and short enough that nobody relaxes into a pose, and the pictures I kept almost all come from the last fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n

Solitude is not the absence of other people. It is a particular kind of attention that only becomes visible once the room goes quiet.<\/blockquote>\n

The series was published in the spring issue of a photography quarterly and has since travelled to two group exhibitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n