SHE (self-portrait) by Kerry McFarland
Small (8.0" x 10.8")
$114.00
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Kerry McFarland

SHE (self-portrait) by

Thank you all for your support of this image. I really appreciate all the comments it’s gotten.

This is truly about me – I think it’s an image that many can relate to in some way, and as mentioned in some comments, it hits nerves. Rather than explain the photo, I’ll leave it up to you. I think it may mean something different to each individual that looks at it. I don’t want to take that from you. To me, it has an important message. See what you can get from it, and I hope it will benefit you in some way.

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About Kerry McFarland

Kerry’s work has been shown in art shows and galleries in Los Angeles, Arizona, and in her home state of Virginia.

For most of her career she has focused on adult portraiture, but the last three years there has been a strong emphasis on children and their beauty. Being enamored with the surreal, her portraits of children have fit right in with her style, capturing their ethereal nature.

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35, beauty, bwphotocomp, cleavage, deep, disturbing, film, fine, infrared, masked, mm, mute, portrait, pressure, self, silence, skin, smothered, womb, feminism

Comments

  • Paul Vanzella
    Paul Vanzellaalmost 5 years ago

    Love this – it’s like you have reached into yourself and pulled this image out… great work indeed!

  • Kerry McFarland
    Kerry McFarlandalmost 5 years ago

    What a compliment, thank you…very much appreciated!

  • claire jones
    claire jonesalmost 5 years ago

    wow, i love this.very fine art.

  • botanicfanatic
    botanicfanaticalmost 5 years ago

    Disturbing and stimulates so many questions for me… have you put this experience into words, like in a story or essay? I’ve read a lot of stories where being mute or feeling voiceless is a theme and it interests me. Would love to read it if you have.

  • Kerry McFarland
    Kerry McFarlandalmost 5 years ago

    Haven’t written anything about it, Alison. I am a woman of (sometimes) too many words, but w/my photography I enjoy being able to leave the words out. It was something I created to address myself and my background. I had thought up something a little simpler and it sat in my head for a while, then it kind of took itself over and became what it is today. I’ll think about commenting on it in the description in the future…do you think it needs that?

  • fernando
    fernandoalmost 5 years ago

    Thanks for the inspitation. Gotta add a new twist(ed) approach to my photo vision.
    I feel like a vouyer.

  • oisin
    oisinalmost 5 years ago
    Made me take a breath, really unsettling but great.
  • Kelly Bird
    Kelly Birdalmost 5 years ago

    LOVE this Kerry, wonderful work!!!

  • Kerry McFarland
    Kerry McFarlandalmost 5 years ago

    Thanks WM

  • Deborah Parkin
    Deborah Parkinalmost 5 years ago

    wow! what an amazing shot – shocking (in a good way) – intense – claustraphobic – brilliant!