_Trudy Hamilton – Public Portrait – @thetrudz

Website: Tru Shots Photography
Twitter: @thetrudz

I have always loved art. My first true experience with art was not in photography but in fact painting. Even in childhood years, I realized the freedom, the expression and and the storytelling possible with art.

I ventured into photography in adolescence and reconnected with it in my twenties. I  combine the external environment with a person’s internal environment, or their personality to create images. To me, many of my images are juxtapositions between a revealed self and a hidden self; both are relevant, both are true.

Some people think that photographers are painters or models on the inside, hiding and afraid. Not so. Though there is some of me that is revealed and some that is hidden, I still see myself for who I am and I am not afraid. For me, a portrait like this one of me does reveal me. There is more to me than just my face. There is my story. And a camera and photography is a part of that story. Expressing that story and others’ stories is my passion. I believe that the only way to truly be free is to explore that which you are passionate about and to excite passion in others. Thus, as a photographer, I am free.]

Trudy