Fred Raimondi

With all the new "phone camera" technology out there, it's easier than ever to take pictures quickly.

If I have a camera in my hand and nothing to do, I WILL take pictures. 
In this case I was at my parent's house and accidentaly flipped to the front facing camera on my phone and there I was. The light was good, and I engaged the camera and shot a self portrait.

I ran across it and thought it would make a good "digital charcoal".

At first I thought, "I'm not that vain, why would I do a self portrait of myself. Then I was looking at a catalog of Rembrandt's works and he did TONS of them. So indirectly Rembrandt gave me permission to do this one".