The definition of identity is who you are, how you think of yourself and how you are viewed by the world. Identity can be a make up of social, gender, cultural or place identity, and can therefore result in a lack of identity.
Typical ways of expressing identity is through the choice of clothing, makeup, hairstyles to more permanent things like tattoos and piercings; which often stretch to aspects of cultural identity
Examples of Identity photographers include:
Jessa Fairbrother: She frequently appears in her own images, piercing and embroidering them to employ process as action. Needle perforations and thread puncture the skin of the photograph, extending image-objects beyond a single time and space.
Phillip Tolendano: One of his projects ‘A new kind of beauty, shows portraits of people who have re-created themselves through plastic surgery. He believes that we are at a turning point in history where we are beginning to define not only our own concept of beauty, but of physicality itself.
Diana Markosian: known for her experimental approach to storytelling, She uses photography and video to explore peoples personal journeys. Her work is both conceptual and documentary
