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My photographs are fabricated
portraits of young adult women, where a fragility of identity can be sensed.
Their expressions no longer show weakness or self-doubt but more assertiveness
and individuality. Though to call them portraits is misleading, as I am
no aiming to create likeness of the subject, I have other motives. Working
more like a film director, in that the young women are acting out a role
in front of the camera, I work on their pose. These photographs are an exploration
of transition. That process of change, through growth, as women find difference
within themselves as individuals. Their bodies remain close but there is
no interaction between them. There is a sense of dislocation. I am constructing
the impression of an individual within a community, depicting aspects of
my peers and myself. Each photograph then becomes my own self-portrait. |
