SHADOWING PORTRAITS 2014-2016


Shadowing Portraits 2014-2016 considers the photographic encounter as a 'social contract'. This contract is negotiated in the act of portraiture between the subject and the photographer. In this work, twenty Australian photo artists pose for a portrait on a plinth. Fahd challenges them to stand in front of her camera whilst she customarily hides behind them to shadow their pose. Subsequently, her body concealed complicates theirs by forming 'another body'. In this series she tries to relinquish some authority by asking her subjects to pose as they wish, dress as they wish, look as they wish. She hides behind them also to be in the frame with them; thus removing herself from behind the camera and standing with her subjects in their moments of discomfort. 

Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Shadowing Portraits installation @ ACP Sydney  2018

Shadowing Portraits install  2016
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Shadowing portraits, with Anne Ferran
Shadowing portraits, with Merilyn Fairskye
Shadowing portraits, with Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Shadowing portraits,with Daniel Palmer
Shadowing portraits,with Suzanne Buljan
Shadowing portraits, with Eleanor Ivory Weber
Shadowing portraits, with Anne Zahalka
Shadowing portraits, with Kylie Banyard
Shadowing portraits, with Salote Tawale
Shadowing portraits, with Eugenia Raskopoulos
Shadowing portraits, with Megan Hanson
Shadowing portraits, with Isobel Parker Philip
Shadowing portraits, with Izabela Pluta
Shadowing portraits, with William Yang
Shadowing portraits, with Julie Rrap
Shadowing portraits, with Siri Hayes
Shadowing portraits, with Clare Rae
Shadowing portraits, with Jacqui Stockdale
Shadowing portraits, with Patrick Pound
Shadowing portraits, with Darren Sylvester


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