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Psychological identity relates to self-image and how you see yourself in your own eyes. Your self image influences you identity quite a lot because depending on how you see yourself helps other peoples opinions on you come from.

I chose this photographer to resemble my self image because I tend to find myself quite two faced towards people like how I wear a mask to hide my true personality from people and show them only what I want them to see from me. Throughout my life my personality has changed and how my self image has changed my identity, my personality has changed in ways that it has pushed people away and brought people closer to me so I find I mostly struggle with my self image as I still don’t understand who I am so trying on different faces helps me connect on who I want to be and who I find I truly am.

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Sebastian Bieniek

In 1999 Sebastian Bieniek for the very first time known in TV and magazines due to the performance “Hand without a body”, he also became part of film history with his film “The Gamblers” in 2007 because there was never before a movie made with such a small budget of 2000€. In 2011 Bieniek wrote the book REALFAKE where he described the theoretic fundament of his following artworks. The performance “My Friend Dr. Winker von der Deutschen Bank” in 2013 was widely published on the media causing a new phase of his work as an artist. Bieniek continued to work on his Manualism works in 2014. He travelled the world and began the “No Matter World Tour” where there perform in public spaces in different cities and countries.

His work of “Doubledfaced” shows a story of a two faced woman going about her day doing daily tasks such as drinking coffee, traveling on the train, taking a shower, and smoking cigarettes. he does this by using an eyeliner pencil and a lipstick to draw another face onto the woman and using her hair to cover her mouth and nose using one of her real eyes as part of the fake face, he then took 22 photos of this woman throughout her day.

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun’s work is unexplainable as it changes the way she looks in all her photos changing from male to female defining gender to how we know and understand it. In her writings she wrote “Masculine? Feminine? But it depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me”, and “I will never finish removing all these masks”

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Both these photos represent the photographer with the other face drawn on my own face yet it doesn’t completely match as there is room for improvement towards my photo shoot with placing and how the face is drawn on my own face as I find that it was too far away from my eye. They also link to the photographer with the idea of having another face on your own face and hiding the original face such as the nose and mouth.

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I’ve danced for as long as I remember, it became a part of me, going home after school to then have a snack then into my dance kit ready for dance where my mum would drop me off. When I got older I would walk to the dance studio with my friends after school and sit there stretching and get ready together for our dance lesson as we were so keen and excided to learn a new dance but then I moved away and I lost that connection with my friends, I lost part of my passion when I left.

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Darian Volkova

Darian Volkova is know well in the ballet world, she is a a Russian ballet photographer, ex-ballerina and a continuous explorer of the unique field of ballet photography. With her good knowledge of ballet she uses this to this to get the people she takes the photos of to get the dancer to use certain lines of choreography to get excellent photos with beautiful dynamics in the images. She teaches people how to make the best ballet photo and how much work goes into placing ballerina’s body into the proper pose for the best possible ballet photograph. Darian describes herself as a “ballet maniac”, knowing just how to show off a ballerina’s talent through her photos. She followed her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina but also becoming a ballet photographer, and an international ballet spokesperson, bringing her passion to the 160K+ followers of her feed.

As both a photographer and ballet dancer, Darian’s collection gives us an intimate insight into the beautiful art of ballet. Often set in the inspiring atmosphere of Russia’s Saint Petersburg Ballet Theatre, her images capture the stunning movement and graceful lines of her dance troupe. Darian also studies the history of ballet photography, gives lectures, and runs workshops for aspiring ballet photographers.

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Social identity refers to the ways that people’s self-concepts are based on their membership in social groups. Examples include sports teams, religions, nationalities, occupations, sexual orientation, ethnic groups, and gender.

What friends mean to me?

Personally I found it difficult to complete because this part of the jigsaw I feel incomplete on like I haven’t found my group, I’ve been stuck in my own little world to focus on other peoples jigsaws and how they need to complete theirs too. So I have decided not to do anything for this section which just shows that I’m not complete, it will take a while until I do but for now I will except that.

I have lost many friends through my journey and I have made some new ones but when a friend feels like family then you know they are a true friends and someone you should keep in your life. My family had a friend who was like a sister to me but unfortunately she passed away when we she was too young and it tore us all apart, we felt empty and incomplete which is where we have to try fix that gap that she left us yet there was nothing to fill it will so we were all stuck with a hole in our hearts.

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The family you were brought up with influences your personality and your identity, the way they bring you up and how they love and support you. With my family they support me on comedy and how my sense of humour should always brighten a room and make the people you care about smile, so throughout my life we use physical comedy to help each other laugh and when someone is feeling down we do something silly to help cheer them up as we hate seeing the people we care about the most in the world be upset.

I chose this photographer because it reflects the happiness my family share and I was inspired on how they use a simple photo and some food to create an effective images which are very comedic.

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Arnaud Jarsaillon and Remy Poncet

Founded in 2009 and led by Arnaud Jarsaillon a self taught visual artist and musician, Rémy Poncet who graduated from the Fine Arts and also musician and Loris Pernoux who graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Acaedie, the members of Brest Brest Brest collective work exclusively in the fields dedicated to culture and arts. With this they imagined posters bigger than themselves, they were also fond of two-colour printing and direct tone superimpositions. they believe that being aware of what is done in other fields is essential and how they observe that graphic design is becoming more and more a cross-cutting area.

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Everyone’s identity is like a jigsaw puzzle which we start piecing together as we grow older to find out who we truly are yet we’ve all lost the lid so no one knows how it will look at the end. As you would normally do when you do a jigsaw puzzle you start with the corners: family, friends, hobbies and self image. Over time you will realise that some pieces don’t go in places like you change friends, find new hobbies or a family member has passed away so you have to move pieces around to fill the gap they have left in you. 

The centre of the jigsaw is your happiness, what makes you feel complete yet people tend to mistake this for a sole mate so throughout our lives we force people to complete us even though we can clearly see that they don’t fit our jigsaw. We do this because we’ve all grown up with the idea that there is someone for everyone, a prince for every princess which is why there is a 42% divorce rate in the UK and yet we force that person to fit the centre of our jigsaw, making space for them by pushing away family, friends and hobbies, changing our image to what they want us to be.

Throughout the blog posts you will uncover what inspires me and what I find defines me, what makes up my personality and how photographers inspire me to show my identity through photos showing the comedy in my life yet also what I tend to struggle with.

Photo montage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. 

Select a series of your headshots (between 5-12) and produce a sequence either as a grid, story-board, contact-sheet or typology. Reference Mullins pages in his portrait albums

Henry Mullins: Pages and re-constructed contact-sheets from his portrait albums.

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Either in camera or merge two or three images into one portrait. The use of double exposure creates a surreal feeling to the photos, with this it can show deep meaning or symbolism. A similar technique, called a “multiple exposure,” is when you combine more than two exposures in a single image.

Andrés Gallardo Albajar

Andrés Gallardo Albajar is a Spanish self taught photographer living in Estonia who was originally from Spain. He has a background in advertising and marketing but it wasn’t until the summer of 2012 when his mother and brother got him his first DSLR camera. Mostly been inspired by architecture and urban elements which his parents help impact on as they are both architects. He was also inspired in portfolio platforms and also on social media where he follows photographers on sites like Instagram not only a source for inspiration but also helps him find good locations.

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I took some of the portraits that I took of Lucy and layered them on top of each other where I made the only image where she’s looking to the left and no hands on her face the clearest because I want the image to have the idea that these are her emotions that is running through her head. I used 4 images to create this multi exposure with 3 of them having her hands on her head expressing emotions through that way then having one image without her hands and facing the top left corner to give the idea that she is thinking or daydreaming. This symbolises ADHD as daydreaming is a symptom, this represents the idea of lack of concentration and as she is showing different positions and the image is very noisy as though she finds it difficult to sit still.

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A studio portrait is a large photograph for which the sitter is posed, typically taken in the photographer’s studio.

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Jocelyne Moreau

Vulnerability and trust are essential aspects of the relationship the model and I have during a photography portrait session. The model literally needs to expose him or herself in front of the camera. To give something personal, he or she has to trust me. I try to create the greatest possible sense of safety, so that there is an exchange of energy; a bond or circle between the subject and myself – an absolute must for a successful photograph.

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