| Hans Eijkelboom |

Hans Eijkelboom (1949) is a Dutch photographer who uses himself to investigate the influence of appearance and clothing on the relationship between the individual and identity. Eijkelboom gradually changed into the relationships between identity and worldview as he looked for a method to visualize how repeated daily observations and experiences slowly form our view on the world. Over the years, Hans Eijkelboom has dealt mainly with the relationship between the individual and masses ina globalizing society. Eijkelboom's work majorly forms a photo book. Eijkelboom has published over mor than 50 books and publications; his latest being, Portraits & Cameras 1949-2009, 10 Euro Outfits, Amsterdam by Numbers and New York by Numbers. In 2007 he exhibited at Foam with Paris-New York-Shanghai.

These are some of his work:

| Artist Model ~ Bettina von Zwehl |

Bettina von Zwehl was bron in Munich in 1971. Zwehl received MA from the Royal College of Art, London 1999. Bettina von Zwehl's work has been exhibited in many galleries in Europe and in the United States. Her famous series 'Alina' (shown below) was exhibited in photoworks and produced in collaboration with Royal College of Music, Photographer's Gallery, London in 2004 and in 'Photography' 2005 at Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Zwehl's work has been shown at Lombard - Freid Fine Arts, New York and Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan Steidl and photoworks have co-published her first monograph in 2007.

Bettina von Zwehl began making portraiture as a student at the Royal College of Art.
''As an artist I am drawn to the intensity of the resulting image and the descriptive power of the format.''
Her work is an outgoing enquiry into the possibilities of portraiture and its fine subtleties. Each of her work aims to enhance psychological states in everyday life using controlled conditions to search for some note of perfect balance in which the sense of an intimate humanity might be revealed.

These are some of her work:

| Edited photos ~ Tess Harding |

I was looking through my photos that I took on Wednesday of Tess; and Mrs Clemence liked how I've started to express my concept. However, there is too many yellow lighting in the images. I've re-edited and deleted the photos so it can look more like natural lighting. So here are the ones that I've kept :

This photo is really blurry but i like the composition. That's why I kept it.

| Identity ~ Knowing your Roots |

Now that I have decided what concept I'm doing, I have started taking photos of students with different backgrounds. As Sarah Cheng-De Winne shows in her photos the importance of women and how they express themselves, I have used that concept on Tess Harding, a Year12 Art student. I spent my last 15 minutes taking photos of her. She is going to be one of my models for showing the idea of identity and where you come from. Tess is Chinese/Maori. I have used her to model out a few gestures of closure, loneliness and culturalism.

I am also planning to use :

• My sister Estelle ~ Tongan Girl
• Begi Ah Lam ~ Samoan boy
• Vanessa ~ African
• Vangie ~ Phillipino 
• Craig ~ Pakeha
• Rawiri ~ Maori
• Nikita Devi ~ Indian
• Kingston ~ Cook Island

These are some of the shots that were taken of Tess. They're not the greatest photographs but it's a start.

| Portraiture Photography |

These photographs show a bit of what I'm trying to go with my concept. Personally, I think that most of these photos capture the idea of identity and they've interpreted it in a way of pushing into society to try and fit in. 

I really like this photo of this girl. She has grasped the idea of loneliness and has 

separated her actual face with a duplicate on paper. I think what this photograph 

is trying to say is, that hiding yourself or your identity behind closed door is something

young people tend to do. To show who are and where you belong to is something we

should all be proud of. 

In this image we recognise a man looking outside from inside a room I suspect.

The shadows that reflect onto his face shows maybe insecurity. Being held up in a 

room wanting to just go out there. The closure through the binds shows what is 

outside compared to how feel as an individual.

This is my favourite image. This photograph by Senol Zorlu captures the concept

of identity. I've interpreted this image as an image of a poor little girl trying to reach out.

She has been identified as a little girl 'trying' to come into this world but is difficult

due to the small hole (pathway) she is trying get out from.  

| Artist Models |

The two modern artist models that I have found so far that portray my concept are Senol Zorlu and Sarah Cheng-De Winne. These two photographers mainly focus on identity and yourself is expressed in a comfortable environment.

Senol Zorlu is a Turkish photographer living and working in Germany. Zorlu focuses on portraying people, places and their cultural. Most of his photos specialize in documenting cultures and traditional life ways of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Sarah-De Winne is a freelance photographer that specializes in portraiture, fashion conceptual photographer that represents identities photography. At the age of 20, Winne was trained in Art & Design and first picked up fashion photography as it led to making social commentary about the way women's were exposed through the Eight:For the Urbanized Woman. Sarah's self-portrait project illustrated her desire to use her own unique perspective to discover women's issues and her identity as an artist.