Response to discussion Topic: Nina Katchadourian’s iPhone photos

Nina Katchadourian took a series of self-Portraits during her long plane ride with some limited materials such as toilet paper, thin black scarf , food, and a camera phone. Katchadourian’s self-portraits looks like a paint. One of her photos she took in the Flemish Style from her Seat Assignment has much painterly effect when she hung her black scarf as a deep black background. I think that Katchadourian wants to make a series of a painterly style photographs. Because, compares with Hans Memling’s portrait of the young 14-year-old bride Maria, Katchadourian poses a prayerful posture and her eyes was looking at somewhere just as similar as Maria Portinari. Seems like she’s telling people that she’s praying. And She dressed up as a Flemish to convince people and make a photo much like a art.