What is identity?

Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and expressions that make a person or group of people. People categories others identity as positive or destructive. A psychological identity relates to self-image and self-esteem.

Identity can be manipulated by various ways, such as parental upbringing, friends, family, culture, work, place and environment, I plan to use this in my photography work, mainly within Photoshop.

Mood Board

Initial Ideas

My first idea is to take about 3-4 photos then line them up in Photoshop, them merge them together, each photo will have the subject doing different facial expressions displaying various emotions. The 2 photos at each end will be anger with 1 hand on the hand creating a sandwich type concept. Additionally, I may add other photos of there face into the image, like the image of the girl with the lipstick on in the mood board.

Another idea is to mask the face in Photoshop and detach it from the head and fill it in with a black area behind the floating face, it could have items coming from behind the face out of the head.

Next, I could have a blank face then edit the faces upside down or swap peoples faces.

I could have 5 blank faces all the same then add facial features on each face, like steps. It shows the process of building identity.