What went well

For my identity mock exam project, I created a collection of images inspired by Annegret Soltau. I like the way I took my own approach to her style of work, to do this I sewed the identity into the skin of the face to create a metaphor that identity is ‘skin deep’. I focused on geographical identity including passports, maps and ID from various paces such as, Jersey, Poland and Portugal. I wanted to include multiple locations as diversity and appreciating other peoples cultures is very important to me. I believe my images turned out well and look very good with the stitching.

What I would do different

For my next project, I will start by taking more images, I photographed a total of 14 people however I only took roughly 4 images of each person, this is down to the fact that I should’ve booked the studio out or an extra hour to be able to take more images. I would also like to create a product with more of a deeper and complex meaning, although geographical identity is very important, I feel I could’ve gone a lot more in depth if I had chosen a different theme to cover and could’ve done more complex editing. I expressed more editing styles in my further editing, some of which I wish I had incorporated into my final piece.

Here is one of my images side by side with Soltaus

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