
Making Faces, courtesy the artist.

Making Faces, courtesy the artist.

Making Faces, courtesy the artist.

Making Faces, courtesy the artist.

Making Faces, courtesy the artist.
I know when a person's teeth are showing in the shape of a smile, they are more likely to be happy than sad. It is the emotions in-between that become problematic. I have always had trouble recognising certain facial expressions like hurt, anger, confusion, sarcasm, etc. These mixed facial messages have been an elusive enigma creating limitations, confusion and anxiety in both social and vocational aspects of my life. Growing up, the expressionless generic plastic faces of my toy action figures were just as meaningful to me as the real faces of the adults that surrounded me. Last year, at the age of 44, I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, it was a relief to have an explanation. Like ghosts embedded within the silver halide of a family snapshot, for me these portraits are charged with emotive memory, a memento mori of past friends, some still here, and others long gone.
Neale Stratford is the winner of the 2008 CCP/Colour Factory Award for an Emerging Photographic Artist
Judges
Corbett Lyon
Professorial Fellow, The University Of Melbourne, Director Lyons Architects And Art Collector
Jane Burton
Artist.
Phill Virgo
Director, Colour Factory
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Making Faces, courtesy the artist.
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