Persona Project

The concept of identity and what composes a person is a topic often fraught with with discussion and disagreement. In order to generate ideas, we reviewed a large variety of different photographs that were related to the concept of the persona. Some were of self portraits, some were of trains, but all had and underlying sense of exploration and definition. For this project, we were tasked to define persona in our own way

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"Indexing is the act of demarcating an object at a specific time, to represent how it behaved/existed in that time frame alone as to avoid possible confusion. For example Daniel: Age 3 behaves very differently than Daniel: Age 15."
- General Semantics Theory

There is no such thing as two completely identical objects. When you look snowflakes under a microscope, obviously they are not the same. However, if you measure an orange one day and then again weeks later, the same orange will give you a different reading. To measure this temporal change, we use indexing.

Throughout my life I have always found myself flitting from one group of people to the next, making friends easily, but making attachments only with great difficulty. In addition, as a third culture child, my sense of otherness has been magnifies as after returning of my place of birth I find I am more of an alien than in the foreign lands I just departed.

This project attempts to index the different facets of my life and subcultures that I did/still belong to. Some of the representations are literal and some are metaphorical but all are true and are me. The images are presented fading into the black background to represent the tentative and intangible hold that each had on my life, never quite becoming fully realised, but instead fluctuating in and out of my life, just like the many locales I have tried to call home.

Scanned Prints:
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Scanned Negatives:
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Project negatives: Persona Project

#SelfPortraitFridays

Earlier in this summer, photocritic.org, a photo blog that I read regularly started a twitter hashtag called #selfportraitfridays. The concept was that self portraits are fun and that most photographers never take them, either because they are not narcissistic enough or they see them as too difficult to shoot. To combat that, Photocritic (see earlier post: Photographers of Interest) encouraged all the photographers who followed him to post a self portrait once a week on Friday with the tag #selfprotraitfridays so that everyone could easily search for the portraits and share tips, tricks, and encouragement amongst each other.

I, unfortunately, have a private twitter feed, so I rarely get any comments on my posts, but I do enjoy taking them, trying to make sure none of them, are conventional/boring and that each is unique in it's own special way. I also try to make sure I take time to do them every week, but sometimes I end up being too busy.

Irregardless, here they are, all my #selfportraitfridays thus far:

1. July 24th
   
   
2. July 31st
   
   
3. August 7th
   
   
4. August 14th
   
   
5. August 21st
   
   
6. September 4th
   
   
7. September 18th
   
   
8. September 25th
   
   
9. October 30th
   
   
10. December 11th