Concealment of Identity through photography

Portraying the concealment of identity is a process that is essentially reliant upon editing techniques. While ideas surrounding the sense of preserving identity can be portrayed through a lens, Editing software such as adobe Photoshop can play a crucial role in bringing ideas to life. Methods such as blurring and pixelation can be applied to obscure the Identity of a person or an object for many reasons. The most common everyday reason is to preserve a persons identity in an occasion such as a Crime documentary or news report. it can also be used to portray a sense of loss of personality and lack of self knowledge.

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Here are  a variety of Images I am taking inspiration from for this project. I have decided to have a mix of Pixelated, Blurred and distorted Images, with my main source of inspiration coming from crime documentaries, where witnesseses, victims and perpetrators alike have their identity concealed by an area of enlarged pixels or blurring in order to protect their identity and reduce the risk of any repercussive harm to them through the publishing of the documentary. In some instances, a strong back light can be utilised to give off an impression of a silhouette to further conceal the identity

Here are a few images that inspire my ideas