What do I love?
What do I hate?
What do I have to say?

What do I want to show people?

What am I hiding?

These are all questions we ask ourselves at some point in our life to figure out who we are.  My experience came in my mid-twenties.  Luckily enough it was also around the same time I discovered the world of conceptual photography.  The emotional stories that could be laid out before the lens were astounding.

The first self-portrait I took was a strange experience.  Facing yourself out of context and detached from your traditional point of view distorts your perspective.  Yet, as I continued, this realm opened up my eyes and peeled back the many masks I had set up over the years to protect myself.  It defined me, gave me purpose, and pushed the limits of who I am.

And so my work became my journey as well as a story to play out before our eyes.

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Liz Malone is a photographer from Long Island, NY.  We welcome her to aamora as a guest photographer. You can find more of her work on her website Photography Nerd.