“What it looks like to be gay”, is a photographic series about how people define and express themselves through clothing and postures. The project is a continuation of my identity work which I am passionate about and have worked on to a personal level. The work includes my models own interpretations of identity, through the help of colour and personal quotes, whilst also using gender europhoric outfits. The series is all about how the models interpret themselves with little direction from myself as I want candid authenticity.
Through my work I try to convey a message to those who don’t properly understand the 21st centuries’ idea of self-identification with making an aesthetically pleasing image combining the design of the pages to seamlessly transition and flow between each image. These ideas have been done in many ways but I feel the help of light painting can help expose the areas that are most defining for each subject.
This piece of work has been done in a studio to excenterate the ideas of identity to isolate them from other contextual objects and make it all about the appearance with the motive of using contradicting poses to represent the masculine and feminine sides of each of my subjects in conjunction with colours playing with gender stereotypes.
