PERSONA

In this photo series, M.J. O’Toole uses modern photographic language to symbolize the ways in which people separate their public and private selves, hiding their deepest feelings from the outside world. Persona encourages viewers to think about the lives of its subjects, and more generally about how different the public face we all present can be from our true selves. He hopes that his photographs also encourage viewers to examine their own lives in the same light—to look for a deeper personal truth in the proverbial mirror.