Canbra Hodsdon

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EPIC Personas
Location: Freeport, ME
Nationality: United States
Biography: Canbra Hodsdon (b. 1985) is an award-winning photographer from New England. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and received her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Massachusetts... MORE
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EPIC Personas
Copyright Canbra Hodsdon 2024
Date of Work Jul 2007 - Ongoing
Updated Feb 2015
Topics Aging, canbra hodsdon, Dying/Death, Epic personas, Family, Fine Art, Friends + Family, Landscape, Personal, Portraiture

EPIC Personas

This body of work is comprised of a series of portraits of my immediate and extended family, including my parents, grandmother, and close friends. I use my memories of each person as a guide for my photographs. I begin by interviewing and collaborating with the subject to create the environment, wardrobe and stance that best portrays each person. While the individual staging is different for each subject, I use a set formula to produce each image.

My goal for this work is to depict these persons in a manner that creates a larger-than-life character by highlighting what I know and love about each person. I also aspire to portray the person in a slightly idiosyncratic or comical light, so as to acknowledge and challenge their own mortality. By using a specific compositional formula, I seek to present the individual as an emphasized version of themselves while striving to capture the viewer’s attention and curiosity, as well as challenge their sense of reality.

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