Below are all the edits I have completed, which are inspired by JOACHIM SCHMID.

edit one

This edit is a mix up of 2 holocaust survivors. I decided to look into the holocaust survivors as I find the whole situation to be interesting and realised that all the people who survived the horrific conditions relate in someway and share a part of their identity. This edit was done as a practice run for the images i was going to take. I had to line up all aspects of the face, so that it looked like they were on person, who shared a part of their identity with each other.

edit two

This edit is also a mix of two holocaust survivors, for exactly the same reason of how i think the holocaust is fascinating, in the sense that these people lived through immense conditions.

edit three

This edit is a mix of my sister and her favourite singer, Ariana Grande. I decided to do this edit because of how much my sister idolises this singer and how she aspires to be like her. Ariana Grande and my sister both share the same star sign, cancer and I feel this links to our identity and how we are as a person.

edit four

This edit is also of my sister and one of her favourite celebrities, Perrie Edwards. I decided to do this mix because of my sister looks up to her and her presence in the media.

edit five

This edit is of my mum and Kelly Clarkson. I decided to this edit because of how much my mum likes Kelly Clarkson and her music. My mum relates to the lyrics of her music. Also my mum has always been said they look similar. Kelly Clarkson also share the same star sign, Taurus.

edit six

This edit is of my mum and Jess Glynne, who is an artist she listens to and likes the music of.

edit seven

This edit is of my sister and Victoria Justice, an actor from my sisters favourite program, Victorious. I decided to do this edit because their personalities are similar, in the sense that they are funny and stubborn.

Sam Contis

Sam Contis is a Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1982. Their work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the The Museum of Modern Art and the and the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.

Sam Contis’ series Deep Springs speaks to the idea of community and the social self. Contis spent lengthy visits at a traditionally all-male liberal arts college in the high desert of California, a remote backdrop that contrasts starkly with the group mode of collegiate life. Contis’ subjects are pictured at a moment in their lives where they are in their early college years that has been typically understood as a time of coming into an adult self. In this case, such identity-formation is impacted by group social dynamics as well as connection to the characteristic western landscape of California.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s

Paul Mpagi Sepuya was born in 1982 he is an American photographer and artist. His photographs focus heavily on the relationship between artist and subject. He often explores the nude in relation to the intimacy of studio photography. The foundation of Sepuya’s work is portraiture. He features friends and muses in his work that creates meaningful relationships through the medium of photography. Sepuya reveals the subjects in his art in fragments: torsos, arms, legs, or feet rather the entire body. Through provocative photography, Sepuya creates a feeling of longing and wanting more. 

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s images often substitute masks, parts and space to fragment both the literal and figurative body. Layers and collage effects unsettle what the eye anticipates, viewers’ fixed beliefs, the historical canon of portraiture and the social context more broadly. “There is a confusion of positions – Where is the camera? The model? – which forces viewers to confront our own perspectives,

Since its origins photography has enabled people to make sense of themselves and their environment. In one sense all photography, whether it is directly about the  photographer or not, is an exploration of identity and/or  place.

Identity or parts of identity may be classified by any number of things such as religion, gender, or ethnicity.

Loss of identity can result in increased levels of generalized anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, a loss of self-confidence, social anxiety, isolation, chronic loneliness, all of which threaten our ability to connect with other people.

You are the one who defines yourself only your thoughts and actions define who you are, and if you don’t recognize yourself anymore, it means you weren’t being fair to yourself.

Self Portraits

A portrait can be of your cat or your brother’s feet on a skateboard. It should say something about the person you are photographing or the person you are creating with the camera.

the difference between a self-portrait and a portrait is seeing themselves. for example a selfie is a smaller branch of self-portraiture. A self-portrait considers the inferiority of the artist; it’s a moment for self-reflection, to pause and to look at yourself.

Since the beginnings of photography, artists have used the self-portrait to push the technical and artistic boundaries of the average in photography.

MINDMAP

Overall I am happy with how this identity project turned out, as it can clearly be seen how I used the reference artists of Hassan Hajjaj and Diana Markosian to inspire my work, and I developed a clear plan beforehand, which I then followed through to completion. I used Hassan Hajjaj’s slightly pop-art style of a frame of repeated images around the outside of each portrait, and followed my theme of representing cultural identity by having these images be flags of all the nationalities of each person. I was inspired by how, in Diana Markosian’s portrait work in Cuba, the subjects are all in a natural position and don’t look too posed, which gives them a sense of power as they are in their home environment and whoever is looking at the image is the outsider. This sense of power is also featured in Hassan Hajjaj’s work as well. The settings for each of my selected pictures reflect the person and their personality well through colour palettes and general vibe also.

However if I were to pick out a flaw it would be how the images turned out slightly grainy. This is because, due to the time of day I did the shoots and the (lack of) natural light available, I had to increase the ISO which reduced the picture quality a little, and I also had to adjust the brightness and such in editing afterwards, which has the same effect. I don’t feel as though this affected my pictures too negatively as they still turned out well in my opinion and I was still able to use some images for my final editing process

Nevertheless, if I were to do this project again, I would redo the photoshoots with more natural lighting, for example in the early afternoon or morning, so that the sun would be in a good position, and possibly I would use a tripod for the first shoot, in order to reduce this grainy effect.

On the other hand, I feel as though the grainy quality of the images has a positive effect, as it can be seen to represent how these pictures were taken in well-known public places, where many people have passed through for years and even decades, and may have even taken pictures like these, where the grain would have been due to the camera quality of the era.