I want to focus on cultural and geographical identity, and how someone’s origins and nationality can affect their sense of identity. Jersey is a very multicultural island due to the many waves of immigration from all over Europe, which can be seen simply by walking through town, and I want to use this to my advantage to gather a range of different cultural experiences and identities for this project.

Reference artists-

Diana Markosian, specifically her work on quinceañeras in Cuba. I love how the colours are bright and vibrant and how the main subject of the photo is in the centre of the image, and how the images are not too posed, but not completely candid either. I am going to use this almost natural but slightly posed method of shooting to capture my subjects to keep their liveliness in the image.

Hassan Hajjaj is a Moroccan photographer who lived much of his life in London, and his work mimics this by blending London’s hip-hop and street-style into Morocco’s vibrancy and intense colours. His images show the vivid personalities of each subject, as well as a sense of strong cultural pride. He uses the pop-art style as well, with each image having a frame of everyday objects around it, which I am going to use in my own images.

Plan-

I am going to take pictures of my friends wearing the clothes that they would normally wear (modern, vibrant) in typical Jersey locations where the tone is different (rural, different colour palette) to show how people’s backgrounds differ from where they live, and specifically how Jersey as an island has a very multicultural population.