Selfie, 1994

In 1994 I had a Great Wall 6x6 slr. In 1995 it broke and was
irreparable. I missed it a lot.

Tonight I went looking for some pictures I'd taken twenty-odd years
ago of a friend in order to scan them. On the same roll I found this
nearly empty frame but, being one who likes a puzzle, I scanned it
too. This is what I found. It's me.

I don't remember taking the picture which I must have set with a timer. I was sitting at our kitchen table looking rather pensive. Or conversational. I don't know. But the picture reminds me of the kinds of pictures the Photo Pictorialists of 120 years ago were taking. I don't like many of my selfies, but I like this one.

The film, according to my notes, was eleven-years-out-of-date Tri-X (having expired in 1983). Taken in my Great Wall. It is square but it isn't the entire negative; it is a crop down to about 50% of the original 6x6cm negative.