I planned my first photoshoot to explore the theme of identity through physical appearance and self-portraiture. I wanted to explore different poses, textures and colours and I feel I was highly successful in garnering a variety of outcomes. I first looked at texture, and through styling myself in textures I explored playfully pulling them to show a sort-of webbing effect which I have shown below.

The first image is one of my favourites from the shoot as I love the effect of the layered fishnet tights to create a webbing effect and a complicated texture, during editing I might experiment with editing the fishnet covering my legs to create a contrast in textures and layers. In the second image I made sure to include my tattoo of a nude lady as it ties into my identity as a queer woman, demonstrating how often we adorn our bodies with keys to our identity. In the third image I again played with creating texture and layering using fishnets but we more of my body in the shot. This will give me more space to work with in future experimentation.

I then went on to experiment with portraiture and conveying identity through the face. I played with the lighting to see whether having our faces darkened and lightened effected the identity of the images and I think I prefer the darker images as they convey more emotion. We played with having blank expressions to convey an authentic sense of identity and feeling throughout the shoot, which I think we achieved strongly. I particuliarly love that me and the other model are looking in seperate directions in all of the images as it conveys a sense of individuality even when we are so closely spaced.

These two images I particuliarly love as they are more playful than the previous, I wanted to capture a contrasting sense of cheekiness to convey a different type of identity. I feel that this is less raw and vulnerable than the previous, but because it is more stylised it conveys a sense of socially constructed identity instead of authentic. I will go on to explore experimenting with these images in editing as well as physically using collage and illustration.