Just One More: Self-Portraits 2012-2017

Since moving to New York City in 2012 Belfast-born visual artist Jonathan David Smyth has been photographing reflections of himself. Shot completely with his camera phone this ongoing series of self-portraits combines issues of identity displacement belonging and impermanence. As Smyth says I make photographs to prove I am here. My work is cathartic but I want other people to relate to what I am presenting. Just One More is a work of moments; it is a visual diary of my life in New York City and these photographs are the mappings of where I have been. The pictures already exist; I am just stepping into them. Featuring fifty plates accompanied with handwritten captions this monograph also includes a critical essay by the executive director of Photographic Center Northwest Michelle Dunn Marsh and a conversation between Jonathan David Smyth and photographer Dana Stirling.