The identity of a person or place is the characteristics they have that distinguish them from others.

Identity can be influenced by “place”, or belonging, your environment or upbringing. Many factors lie within someone’s personal identity, such as gender identity, cultural identity, social identity, geographical identity, political identity.

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These factors can change how people think of others and themselves which can also lead to a lack of identity where an individual may question who they are and may feel disconnected from who they are as a person.

INSPIRATIONS

CORINNE DAY

Corinne Day (Feb 19 1962 – Aug 28 2010) was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s and onwards has been immense.

Self taught, Day brought a more documentary look to fashion imagery, in which she often included autobiographical elements. Her pictures unflinchingly document her life and relationships with a realist snapshot aesthetic-representing a youth culture set against the glamour of fashion and avoiding fictionalization or voyeurism.

Gaining notoriety both for a scandalous photo of Kate Moss in Vogue in 1993 and for pioneering so-called ‘grunge’ fashion photography, she was exiled from the mainstream fashion media-which had always been wary of her potential for controversy

FRANCESCA WOODMAN

Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Despite her short career, which ended with her suicide at the age of 22, Woodman produced over 800 untitled prints.

Influenced by Surrealism and Conceptual Art, her work often featured recurring symbolic motifs such as birds, mirrors, and skulls. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred, merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured.

RYAN MCGINLEY

Ryan McGinley was born on October 17, 1977, in Ramsey, New Jersey. He received a BFA in graphic design at Parsons School of Design, New York, in 2000. That same year he staged his first solo show of photographs, The Kids Are Alright, inside an abandoned warehouse in New York’s SoHo neighbourhood.

McGinley’s work typically features young, white models outdoors, captured in a carefree mode that the artist calls an “evidence of fun. He gravitated toward street culture early in his adolescence and began hanging out with a band of self-proclaimed outsiders—skateboarders, club kids, graffiti artists, queer-identified youths, and indie musicians.