My Shadow Self

Carl Jung coined the term The Shadow Self in 1912. In psychology it refers to a person’s dark, repressed side those parts of ourselves we don’t want to acknowledge much less reveal to other people. For my show, The Shadow Self is a way for me, a camera-shy photographer, to avoid more classic self-portraits while sharing something (but not too much) about myself. In this exhibit I invite the viewer to interpret what I am disclosing and what I am hiding in these dark, sometimes cryptic, sometimes lighthearted, photographs. Ruth Raskin (1955-2024)