Project Statement
"For the past two years, I have been inviting people to create imaginary characters for my photographic series "Guardians of the Golden Gate," providing them the opportunity to express themselves led by their own creativity. By encouraging my subjects to put together their own costumes, I ask each individual to construct a unique character inspired by personal ideas around mythology, archetypal superheroes, and science fiction. This work is about imagination and role-paying as much as it is about manifesting interpretations of identity, particularly as it relates to self-representation in contemporary photographic practice. Influenced by a cultural crossover of ideas and inspirations, each individual invents a distinctive persona for the camera. The series results into hybridization of a diversity of aesthetic references, epitomizing the integration and assimilation of social and cultural globalism. "
"For the past two years, I have been inviting people to create imaginary characters for my photographic series "Guardians of the Golden Gate," providing them the opportunity to express themselves led by their own creativity. By encouraging my subjects to put together their own costumes, I ask each individual to construct a unique character inspired by personal ideas around mythology, archetypal superheroes, and science fiction. This work is about imagination and role-paying as much as it is about manifesting interpretations of identity, particularly as it relates to self-representation in contemporary photographic practice. Influenced by a cultural crossover of ideas and inspirations, each individual invents a distinctive persona for the camera. The series results into hybridization of a diversity of aesthetic references, epitomizing the integration and assimilation of social and cultural globalism. "