Orphans


  • Photographer
    Dylan Strickland
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2014

Photography has long been viewed as an absolute truth, a document of a person’s existence and appearance. The growing popularity of photo manipulation, especially beauty retouching, has created a number of questions regarding that identity. This series is an examination of identity in the age of photographic manipulation. After editing images, the original subject is removed, isolating the retouched pixels. The identity has been altered, but not erased. Can these images be thought of as the original subjects? If they are created from (but not part of) the original subjects, do they have an identity in and of themselves?

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