Kweku Asafu-Adjaye Weekly Post - Edward Honaker

Edward Honaker is quite different from most photographers people hear about. He is different because rather than taking portraits that portray other people or his general self, he takes portraits to convey the subject of depression. Through experience, a lot of the time people who suffer from such tend to not feel safe or normal in their own skin.

His photographs such as the ones listed below show this very action in that he has a mostly full body portrait but the faces are blurred out. This action can be achieved through the simple means of shaking the head and keeping the body still. Sometimes he flips the image, other times he (rather than blurring the whole face) blurs just the mouth. I just feel like the whole ghosting effect really emphasizes on his story.

I enjoy how his portraits portray depression and sadness because this is something I am handling myself. He does have other types of photography but he tends to focus on one subject. Just as I tend to focus on a subject but still do other conjectures.