My self-portraits are a direct reflection of my internal condition. The ideas I choose to visually illustrate are based on personal reflection. The culmination of deep introspection on the person I think I am and the person I want to become. Photography becomes a form of self-healing. The images produced are a vessel to hold my thoughts, emotions, and feelings. A physical space to discard and store the weaker portions of myself as I continually strive to evolve into a better person.
Shannon Maltbie-Davis is a visual artist based in Basehor, Kansas. She received a BFA in Graphic Design and an MFA in Visual Communications from Kansas State University. After leaving the workforce to raise her two sons, she returned to her love of art by earning a BFA in photography at the University of Kansas. As a photographer, her body of work alternates between capturing images of her children and surroundings, creating an on-going series of self-portraits, and documenting her experiences with auto-immune issues.
