The Self-Portraiture of Kristamas Klousch

I love the work of self-portraitist Kristamas Klousch. It’s fascinating, brilliant, and ever-changing. Combining instant film and digital techniques, she creates images that express a myriad of facets of, revealing and yet eluding the subject of the photographs, her “self.” What results is intensely beautiful, haunting, and dreamy. In the mini-bio on her site, she says, “Kristamas Klousch is a strange little wolfgirl, residing deep in the forests & cities of Canada.” She has also been described as “at once wild forest creature, fetish vixen, tousled witch, Lolita, courtesan, silent movie vamp, and voodoo priestess.” One of her pictures is on the cover of the current issue of Coilhouse Magazine.

Check out more of her brilliant work on her Website and her Flickr stream. She has an endless array of self-portraits, the most interesting images of one’s self you could imagine, up on her site. I think she’s amazing.

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