A picture of self-indulgence

“It is difficult to know yourself,” Van Gogh once wrote, about self-portraits, “but it isn’t easy to paint yourself either.”

It is straightforward enough to take a photograph of yourself, though, as we notice all around us.

To recap; we have had the year of the selfie, we have recently seen the reinterpretation of the selfie as an awkward group photograph, and now we witness the rise of the sporting celebration selfie.