This work considers our ever shifting idenitities. The portraits are physically disrupted to represent how the people and media we interact with alter and shape who we become.
The images represent iterations of identity, self representation and belonging.
I've drawn on the parallels between how we think of identity and how John Szarkowski defined a photograph...
The nature of a photograph can be defined as the object itself;
the details it shows;
the specific moment in time it was taken;
what is included within the frame (as well as what was left out)
and the vantage point from which it was taken.
It can also be thought of a representation of truth.
If it was photographed it must have existed at that moment in time.
In parallel, our identity can be defined by our physical appearance and by the details of our traits and characteristics that we choose to reveal.
We select which parts to reveal and which bits to “crop out” in any given relationship or situation.
Our identity evolves over time and yet can be defined at a particular moment or interaction.
It can also be definied by how we position ourself in the world.
Finally, the perspective from which we’re seen by others alters their interpretation of who we might be.
In both definitions we can only convey a discrete amount of information in any one interaction (or image) and that information can shift and change over time, from interaction to interaction and image to image.
The number of ways in which we edit and alter ourselves is as varied as the number of people, places and situations we find ourselves in.
