Week Three : Astrid Kirchherr

(... and the soul crushing feeling of Imposter Syndrom)

Another submission to the 52 Week Challenge over at r/clondon52.
Not sure how I feel about this. The end product is nice, I guess. This isn’t something I wouldn’t have tried if not for the challenge. I suppose I’m a better person from having tried it… but…

It feels insincere.
It feels fake. It feels like cheating.

I understand, on a conscious level at least, that this is a way of learning. See what others have done before and try to mimic that. We were given references, including snapgalleries.com/portfolio-it... . Plenty of neat ideas and in the end, I combined two; Kirchherr’s self-portrait and “John attic portrait, Hamburg, 1962”.

My challenge (and am not willing to call it a ‘problem’) is that it feels phony.

I really don’t know where I’m going with this rant. Maybe it’s just me processing what’s going on.