MARÍA  EMILIA  ESCOBAR  

IDENTITY  

A1er   trying   to   capture   iden?ty   through   paints   and   drawings,   I  found  that  photography  was  the  most  appropriate  medium  to  do  this.   It   allows   capturing   the   essence   of   a   moment,   object   or  people  in  the  picture.I  use  a  lot  the  resource  of  reflec?on  like  in  mirrors,  windows  and  water.  I  did  this  because  it  shows  who  we  are   versus   how   people   see   us.   Also   because   one   of   the  major  challenges  I  had  was  to  take  pictures  with  self-­‐?mer.I  strived  for  using   different   composi?onal   schemes   and   aesthe?c   resources  within   the  whole   process   of  my   inves?ga?on.     I   wanted   to   do  each  picture  different.   I   just  didn’t  want  a  picture  of  myself   in  a  mirror.  That’s  why  I  used  different  composi?ons  like  the  ones  in  photos  7  and  9.Those  composi?ons  force  the  viewer  search  me,  and   is  not  simply  me   in  the  mirror,   like   in  the  photos  3-­‐4.Those  photos  were  the  first  approaches  I  made  to  self-­‐portraits.  As  my  theme  was   iden?ty  and  the  search  of   it,   I  wanted  to  make  very  personal  photos.   In  each  photo   I  wanted   to  bring   something  of  my  personality,  where  or  how  I  feel  comfortable  and  what  I  The  last  two  photos  came  from  the  idea  of  taking  a  self-­‐portrait  with  me  not  being  really  there.  For  these  photos  I  printed  a  photo  of  me  and  then  took  a  picture  of  that.