Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Claire Pepper
Lee by HS Hopeful Claire Pepper
A portrait for a pleasant Friday afternoon, I offer you aspiring Hot Shot Claire Pepper. On her work, she says:
I primarily make portraits and I am interested in ideas of surface, masquerade, and performance from an everyday point of view. I often make portraits of people I know but recognize that the act of photographing them distances them from me. In this series I was photographing people I worked alongside at a part-time job in a bar; interacting with them in this space that we found ourselves trapped in for several hours a week, doing this routine job. It’s about their relationship to the place, and to me. I wanted the images to represent a certain distance between us that I experienced; although there is a lot of interaction going on it is a mask, and you don’t give too much of yourself away.
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