ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of creating a body of work for an exhibit at the college I instruct at. I found the opportunity to be the perfect chance to photograph some of my peers across campus, including the great Dan York pictured here.

I met Dan during a student semester art show on campus after he won an award for one of his photographs- one of the perks of teaching on our campus is that you can take classes in other departments. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that he was a professor of anatomy!

There were many reasons as to why I chose to photograph Dan, number one being our friendship, number two being his "Abraham Lincoln" gaze and stature, and number three... well, we had full access to the anatomy lab.

AUTHOR
I consider my portraits to be collaborations between myself and the people I am photographing. I encourage their opinions on what they wear, where we take their portraits, and how they want to pose. I see this approach as a path to representing people and who they are in as truthful a way as possible, because I am not allowing my ego or own assumptions to take over who they appear to be. Afterall, who they are is what drew me to photograph them in the first place, and losing that key element would mean losing the fulfillment that photographing people brings to my life as an artist.

~ Roxanne

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