Joanna Casey

These photographs reflect several different approaches to portraiture – people in their own surroundings, and aspects of myself – made in a unique place, Le Bloc in Paris, which is a large community of artists and squatters. As the Bloc images had to be made over only two days during the workshop, these are a spontaneous response to what was available there – both the inhabitants and the backgrounds. The still life images were constructed from objects found in recycling shops. Each portrait reveals something about the human condition, interconnectedness, and hidden aspects of identity.