I recently posted a series of photographs on Instagram and Facebook. They were all pictures of me – some self-portraits and some taken by other people – from 1979 to 2000. I called them “retroselfies” and categorized each as being from a certain “period” of my life. I posted one a day for about two weeks.
I’m reposting the images here, on the Blork Blog, as an act of reclamation of ownership, since I don’t feel like I fully own what I post in the walled gardens of Zuckerberg.
So here, for my own sense of reclamation, and for the two or three of you who are not using Instagram and Facebook, is the series of photographs I call “My Periods” (hashtag #retroselfie).
My Periods (1979-2000)
(Not in chronological order.)
Me, in my centrefold period. (Corner Brook, Newfoundland. 1979.)
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Me, in my radio period. (St. Francis Xavier University, 1986.)
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Me, in my “dark and stormy night” period. (Montreal, 1988.)
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Me, in my top-hat period. (Nova Scotia, 1980.)
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Me, in my folk period. (University College of Cape Breton, 1982.)
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Me, in my Hemingway period. (Montreal, 1990.)
(It was suggested in the comments that this was more “Corey Hart” than “Hemingway.“)
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Me, in my “Into the Wild” period. (Nova Scotia, 1984.)
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Me, in my Slacker period. (Cape Breton, 1979.)
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Me, in my Pablo Escobar period. (Otavalo, Ecuador, 2000.)
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Me, in my sweater period. (Glenfinnan, Scotland, 1993.)
(Loyal readers might recognize this photo from this blog post, and this related one.)
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Me, in my Early Steve Jobs period. (Montreal, 1991.)
Note: there was no “Later Steve Jobs” period. (It was suggested in the comments that this was more “John Lennon” than “Steve Jobs.)
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Me, in my Tri-X period. (Prague, Czech Republic, 1995.)
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And in conclusion, me in my WTF period. (Montreal, 1989.)
