Some people will do anything for their art.

Bermudian Signe Constable, 15, was willing to photograph herself lying in the snow in a sleeveless dress, among other things.

The photo is just one of 40 self-portraits of Signe in her first photo exhibition opening on March 15 at Rock Island Coffee, on Reid Street, in Hamilton.

Signe is the daughter of James and Jennifer Constable who moved four years ago to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, where they are currently building a house. The show came about when Signe returned to Bermuda last September for a visit.

"I was talking to Lisabet Outerbridge who owns Rock Island Coffee," said Signe. "I was talking about my photography, and she asked me if I would like to have a show there. I have always wanted my own show."

Although Signe has been taking photos for a long time (for a 15-year-old), she only became serious about it two years ago.

"A friend of mine told me about this project where you take a photo of yourself every day for a year," she said. "I thought that would be fun."

She is now in the middle of her second year of the project. Photos are posted on the photo sharing website Flickr.com. The photos in the show are some of the highlights of her self-portrait project.

"I am proud of the photographs in the show for different reasons," she said. "Some were difficult to do or challenging to take.

"I did one a couple of weeks ago where I had my family throw water at me to freeze it in the air.

"I do a lot of stuff at sunset. That is one of my favourite times to work. That is challenging because you only have 15 minutes to work with. You have to know what you are going to do."

She said sometimes it was difficult taking the photos in public. "When you do them in a public place a lot of people ask you what you are doing and ask to take the picture for you," she said. "They think you are crazy to take it yourself."

She took the photos with a Canon Rebel XS camera with a self-timer and a tripod.

"A lot of the photos are influenced by emotion," she said. "I am pleased with the photos that push across the emotion I was trying to get across even if they aren't my best photos aestetically."

One photo in the show was taken while she was sick.

"It was on my birthday last year, while we were on vacation in Tanzania," she said. "I had the flu really badly and it was late at night. We were staying in this place and it was our last night."

But she said since taking up the self-portrait project she has never forgotten a day.

"But when you look at the entire collection of photographs (not just the ones in the show) a lot of them are no masterpieces.

"There are handshots or arms-length ones. But I kept those out of my show. Nobody wants to look at those really."

She said in some ways self-portraiture was easy, because she never had to depend on other people.

"It is very easy to use myself as a subject because I am always ready," she said.

Signe is largely self-taught. "Mostly, what I have learned I have learned from myself, friends or online tutorials," she said.

She has also received encouragement from her uncle, James Cooper, a well-known Bermudian artist and photographer. In fact, it was Uncle James who gave her the camera as a Christmas gift.

"Over the course of being involved in this project, in terms of photography, I have definitely gotten a lot better at everything," she said. "I have gotten a lot better at doing things on the camera instead of editing the photos afterward. I have also gotten a lot better at using the computer programme Photoshop."

She said she has tried to use herself objectively, as a photo subject.

"Sometimes you can't see who it is," she said. "I look at the photos and see a piece of art with a person, not necessarily myself."

In one of her most recent self-portraits, she lay in the snow in a sleeveless dress. "I was cold, but okay," she said.

She said although the photos may display an emotion, they are not necessarily a diary of her life. "That is something I have to work on — finding a mixture of artist and something going on in my life."

Through the project, and the Flickr website, she has come to know many other people, also interested in photography.

"There are thousands of other people who are doing it," she said. "So I have gained a lot of support. That is where I showcase my work."

Signe is homeschooled, and still a bit undecided about what she is going to do next in terms of her education.

"Until this year I would have said 'no, I'm not going to college'," she said. "But I have been thinking about it a lot more and it might be a good building block towards what I would do with the rest of my life. I will probably do something with art and photography."

"I have never had any of them printed up. like this before," she said. "This is my first show ever, anywhere."

Her photos will be for sale in the exhibition and each of the prints will be limited edition originals.

She hoped to be in Bermuda for the show opening.

For more information about the self-portrait project, go to www.flickr.com/groups/365days