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Portraiture emerged as one of the most prominent genres of depictive media early in the history of the visual arts, and tacit or explicit rules, conventions, and cultural expectations have always influenced the ways in which artists approached the genre. Photography is no exception; numerous different and characteristic styles of portraiture have emerged throughout the history of the medium.

Today, we live in an exciting new era for portraiture. There has never been a time in human history when so many portraits and self-portraits were produced day after day as in the era of digital technologies. Photographers have responded to these cultural, social, and technological changes by reinterpreting the age-old genre of portraiture in countless creative ways.

We usually assume that faces are necessary components of portraiture. However, we may learn just as much about the character, personality, identity, or presence of a person by looking at images that depict other parts of their bodies, gestures, clothing, objects, surroundings, or places associated with them. Not focusing on the face may open up new dimensions of interpretation, while traditional portraits may continue to reveal the complexity of personality through expression, pose, light, setting, and photographic style.

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Curator's choice

Nikita Pasynkov: Medusas

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Honourable mentions

Susanna Hagström: An Eye for Beauty

Steve Lease: Dakota, Studio Session

Dina Sirat: Splinters of Memory

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Exhibiting photographers

 Marea Atkinson (Adelaide, SA, Australia), Lindsay Brice (New York, NY, USA), Robert Brook (Shrewsbury, UK), Eva Brunner (Berlin, Germany), Brigitte B Burckhardt (Vevey, Switzerland), Ron Cooper (Denver, CO, USA), Mark A. Dierker (Dubuque, IA, USA), Janelle Freiman (La Jolla, CA, USA), Betty Goh (Singapore), Susanna Hagström (Stockholm, Sweden), Kylo-Patrick Hart (Aledo, TX, USA), John Kosmer (Fly Creek, NY, USA), Tom Laurence (Urbana, IL, USA), Steve Lease (Doylestown, PA, USA), Andrea London (New York, NY, USA), Richard Luxton (Bristol, UK), Leba Marquez (North Hollywood, CA, USA), Zsuzsi Matolcsy (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Trevor Messersmith (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA), Jose Ney Mila Espinosa (Kissimmee, FL, USA), Robert Morrissey (Portland, OR, USA), Dr. Shruti Nagpal (New Delhi, India), Olga Neff (Paphos, Cyprus), Fern L. Nesson (Cambridge, MA, USA), Nikita Pasynkov (Limassol Germasogeia, Cyprus), John Potter (Ryan, IA, USA), Derek Ronald (Arlington, VA, USA), Karen Safer (Playa del Rey, CA, USA), Zsuzsanna Sárközi (Pázmánd, Hungary), Lars Schumacher (Hannover, Germany), Dina Sirat (Netanya, Israel), Miguel Sobreira (London, UK), Edit Ternyák (Budapest, Hungary), Rainer Würth (El Llano, Spain)

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