Response: Nina Katchadourian’s Self Portraits

Nina Katchadourian’s self portraits are kinda weird. I wonder if any other passengers on the flights noticed what she was doing at all. That would have been funny. I think that she has this really serious mood in all her photographs. I can see how it resembles the Flemish portrait by Hans Memling. However, Maria Portinari looks slightly less scary. The hands are in a similar position but Maria still looks like she’s praying or devoting herself to something while Nina looks somewhat scared and at times angry. I’m not sure of what Nina is saying about herself in these self portraits. I don’t think that there’s a real purpose behind them. It seems sort of amateur. I give a photographs a thumbs down.