Not In Your Face By Susan A. Barnett

“When people choose a T-shirt, it’s not just something to wear,” says New York-based photographer Susan A. Barnett. “Often it’s to communicate a strongly felt message.” This was the inspiration for the 58-yearold’s series, Not In Your Face.
Barnett, a New Yorker for 35 years, has always done street photography. But last summer, when she snapped a young woman in a T-shirt that had a mask image printed on the back, she says, “I realized the shirt told me so much: her style, her interests.”
She also realized the advantage of this point of view. “Our impressions of people are from the front,” she says, “but we notice how they carry themselves from the back.”