This photo shoot is inspired by the artist Lorna Simpson, who captured the model without including their face. I believe that this is a good idea when trying to capture someone loss of their identity.

Planning

I will conduct this photo shoot in a variety of settings, from outdoors to indoors in enclosed areas. In these multiple locations I tend to have a plain background which means setting will not ruin the idea of having no identity. My camera settings will be kept normal, however I may experiment with changing the ISO to make the images darker, which also helps to show the dark and depressing side loosing identity has. Moreover, I am going to look at experimenting with the shutter speed in order to create and intended blur, to convey that maybe loosing an Identity leaves your life in a blur, making those images metaphorical. I will be using different props such as people, pillows, windows etc in order to block the face of my model allowing the sense of loss of identity to be shown.

Contact Sheet

I am very happy with the images I managed to take out of this photoshoot as it has provided me with inspiration in the editing stage. However, I found it hard to capture images without repeating the image before, resulting in less images. Knowing this fact it will help inspire my next photoshoot.