For my final photography project, I was influenced by Gillian Wearing. She did a reflexive study of herself with multiple self portraits. She focused on understanding genetic connections with her immediate and relative family. In each self portrait, she transformed herself into her one of her family members. She did this by using masks, makeup, and models. It is incredibly difficult to tell that every single one of her shots is actually her!
Like Wearing, I am interested in a study of myself and the connectedness I have to not family, but technological tools such as cell phones, ipods, and cameras. I am influenced by her study of “the self” and plan to do a study of myself in this last portrait project. The manner of which I go about the study will be very different than that of Wearing, but the idea of exploring one’s self is a parallel between my photos and Wearing’s photos.
