A NEW GAZE

Everyone has their own individual identity. It isn’t just what you look like or how you see yourself – it’s also based on our cultural background, emotions, memories and personal experiences. This piece explores how your own background shapes and informs your approach to portraiture and representation. Bringing together practical and theoretical aspects of portrait photography, it will consider some of its core elements – visual codes, conventions, key practitioners, and aesthetic approaches. Considering the digital age as its modern landscape, i've explored the implications of sharing and consuming portrait photography across new platforms and formats as well as what that means in the context of sustainability and globalisation.

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DYSTOPIA IN EUTOPIA: BETTER LIVES (The Performing Self and Performing The Other). Why is it that we often feel lost in a state of our own self autonomy? Performing for oneself , in which being marginalised and conditioned by the world around us is common procedure- feelings of guilt , confusion, restriction. Drag is an expressive art form that paints freedom and emotion onto a physical canvas, a form of identity. Why do you hate what makes me comfortable ? Why do you hate what I do not choose, but am programmed to feel? Why do you hate it so much that you and I have a different view ? Why is it we choose to hate ? Photographed by Nicole Oaten, Model @_harryholden Makeup by @caltheworld

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JUXTAPOSITION COLLIDES, BETTER LIVES: (Location). A unison of two that are about a different path , except they are on the same. Camden is one of Londons most cultural and historical landmarks , with a grapevine of odes to music and style. Models Laaibah Amjad and Mia Zimmerman embody purpose of Camden’s location, the history of the habitual , alternative goth punk meets the corporate esque commutee . The thought that when you become so associated with said place, you blend into it, and personify all of its features. Therefore, those passerby’s become all the more sharp. The portraits being a notion to locations variety of purpose , in Camden , or anywhere for that matter. photographed by Nicole Oaten