FORMS

AN ABSTRACT PORTRAIT SERIES

BY SEAN DOUGHERTY

Forms series negative collage.

Forms is an ongoing abstract photography project that aims to question self identity through existential portraiture. It represents our inner selves through out of body experiences; an assemblance of our thoughts, beliefs and understandings manifested through our exteriors. It is a deconstruction of the centralized self, an admittance of the unintelligible and a search for substance in the paradox.

Forms portrait study one.
Forms animated portrait sequence.

Each image is made entirely in camera using multiple exposures on a single sheet of 8x10 film. No post processing is used in the creations. As such, the negatives are in their final Forms.

The negative, to the film photographer is often viewed as the most tangible piece of art.

Cherished by entombment in plastic sheets and binders, hidden from the public.

These physicals hope to serve as an extension of an experience that is typically reserved for the photographer.

SELECTED PRINT WORKS