melodrama may be the least interesting aspect of set-up photography past and present

I just finished reading the article Mike posted a little while ago Wandering in a Forest of Poses...I kept thinking of parallels between my work this semester, and that which Smith wrote about.

Last critique I kept thinking about how uncomfortable I was getting with my being in those pictures, and how if I looked at them from the outside, if I hadn't produced them, I would think they had been made by some girl playing dress-up and not an artist doing serious work...I don't know that removing myself from the images will help much, or if its best that I rethink my entire approach...

At SPE I also questioned what importance the images I make can have when there are photographs out there that speak of real issues that do interest me, but that currently make no appearance in my work...