The Importance of Identity

A Visual Criminological Analysis of Intersectionality

Abstract

A traditional single-lens reflex camera holds a mirror at the core of its

mechanism. The mirror allows for light to reflect whatever the lens is focusing

on to the viewfinder for the photographer. This mechanic holds no greater

significance other than its intended function to give the photographer the

opportunity to preview the photograph before taking the image, but I find great

poetic symbolism in it. The photographer and the subject, tied together by their

own reflections and a string of light– they are inseparable. This idea became my

philosophy as a photographer but also an artist viewing photographs– the images

are always informed by the photographer and vice versa.