The Portrait ‘22, Juror Richard McCabe
11/4 - 11/26/22
The daunting task of editing the number photographs submitted for the SE Center for Photography’s Portrait down to just forty photographs was difficult. I was impressed by the depth and breadth of imagery. The photographs submitted ranged from posed studio images, candid street photography, to constructed or fabricated imagery.
A portrait does not necessary mean just an image of a person’s face, many of the portraits featured in the exhibition show only hands or shadows of the person. It was the non-traditional portraits that resonated most to me – people in cars or images where were faces obscured by other elements within the picture-plane as well as the banal moments of human existence.
Light, shadow, composition – elements of design that make a photograph balanced and successful were key factors in choosing work for the exhibition. In the end, the most powerful photographs captured personality of the person’s pictured, their humanity and the human condition.
Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
