If you look at Time Magazine’s “The Most Influential Images of All Time,” 84 of the 100 photos involve the human face to some degree. It’s clear that the face is important. It is how we as humans connect with others. What happens when we cannot see the face but instead some idea of the face?
PIXELATED seeks to explore this question through pixelating faces —the very essence of a portrait — and documents how people react to portraits of ideas of people, especially in ways that create some type of detachment between the viewer and the subject. This experimental documentary project is a result of my interest in the intersection between art and photojournalism. With this project, I explore the fine line between artistic photojournalism and photojournalistic art — with PIXELATED falling into the latter though sometimes in between.
