| 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.

| 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.