Heitor Magno

Heitor Magno is a Brazilian visual artist who explores identity through self-portraiture.

He uses double exposure techniques, often placing clones of himself alongside eachother, to create glitch images – layering and obscuring expressions and complex emotions. Interfered Pictures, invisible expressions and pixelated factions are reflections questioning about his identity.

Heitor questions our willingness to expose intimate moments in our lives which can usually be given away by the expression on our faces.

 Mark Borthwick

Mark Borthwick is a British photographer now living in Brooklyn, New York. His photos are often minimal, yet highly saturated in colour. He has contributed to many publications, including Vogue, George, Purple, and Index.

Mark Borthwick uses film in his photography even now due to his interest in the luminosity and transparency that it gives. He likes to have less control of his photography and let it happen spontaneously, as he feels its so controlled like a mechanism. However, he also does find it a surprise everytime as it depends on temperature of the light and the brightness of the light.

He realised that what he loves about photography is capturing people who he has a connection with, as it gives a sense of time and history from capturing them in different moments of time.

In the Images are Stella Tennant who he has been taking photos of for over 10 years. He became friends with her after their children had formed a friendship.

Combining the two photographers ideas, I felt inspired to take photos of people who I had a connection with, my friends. As I know their emotions, I would glitch and distort them to prevent the viewer from seeing this and therefore hiding their identity.