Self-portraits

The artist turns the camera on himself, offering unflinching and close-up views of his face, hands, neck, and chest, visibly marked by time.

Black-and-white close-up photographic portrait of a man's eye and nose
Black-and-white close-up photograph of beard hairs around a mouth
Black-and-white close-up photograph of a man pulling down his lower eyelid
Black-and-white close-up photograph of the stubble and beard around the chin and neck
Black-and-white close-up photograph of the buttons of a shirt
Black-and-white close-up photograph of an open eye
Black-and-white close-up photograph of an ear
Black-and-white close-up photograph of a side-ways cast eye and nose
Black-and-white close-up photograph of the tip of a nose
Black-and-white close-up photograph of of the inner base of three fingers, one wearing a ring
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