This project studies identity as a carefully curated, shifting, and often unreliably projected performance in public and private spaces. With this, I was particularly intrigued by how information adjacencies and the sequence of content within a book could contribute to narrative.
Sourced editorial photography is cropped to juxtapose a sequence of Michael Wolf’s street photography documenting human life and interaction in the city. Recontextualized spreads create new abstract images that explore how identity and self fluctuate often.
The work utilizes pacing, scale, and composition to convey an intentional narrative as it progresses from least intimate to increasingly more invasive photography. Each image set– the abstracted work of each spread– reauthors the original photography by creating a new narrative of body posture in the spaces that we inhabit.
