This installation addresses the unphotographic component of the portrait studio:

The performative aspect of the studio portrait.   

As my employment as a trade photographer wore on, I became fearless and obsessed. I made hidden microphones embedded in Santa Clause pins and flower broaches.  I was striving for covert ways to reveal the odd dynamics and labored performances required to make these mundane photographs.

Audio of photographic sitting between a family of four and myself was collected by hidden microphone.

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