Photographer Toby Dixon came-up with a rather interesting interpretation of people who live with split personalities. In an effort to literally depict the psychological state, Dixon shot a graphic interpretation called 'Split Personality'. Dissociative identity disorder or DID, also known as multiple personality disorder or MPD is a mental disorder characterized by at least two separate and relatively continuing identities or dissociated personality states that take turns controlling a person’s behavior.The Sydney, Australia based photographer challenged himself by not using any post-photoshoot tricks. The two images were shot the way they appear, getting practically everything in camera. To help create these two pictures, Dixon had on board stylist Monique Moynihan and make-up artist Budi for the project. Working as a trio, they brought back a vanishing art form, producing everything organically for the camera to capture, rather than rely heavily on Photoshop, which has become so commonplace nowadays.Dixon talks of the pictures, saying “For this assignment I wanted to do things a little bit old school. Instead of shooting two separate images and retouching them together to create this ‘split personality’, we did everything though camera with clever styling. No cutting, no comping, no Photoshop trickery."Looking at the finished product, these split down the middle models could not be more different on each half. One half is all serious, no-nonsense and businesslike, while the other half lets it all hang loose.
Eric Myer
Myer specialises in portraits, focusing on character-driven shots of real people on location. His online exhibitions Stereotypes I and Stereotypes II are interactive; the idea is that you select the top of someone's head and the bottom half/ shoulders of someone else and it blends the two characters to create one. Sometimes they result in strange mixtures of people who you might look twice at if you saw walking down the street but that is the initial concept behind the project.
B Paul Patterson: Anti Stereotypes
Patterson photographed a diverse selection of her friends and then created composite portraits of people who would defy the typical categorisation of gender, race, sexual preference etc. It reminds me of an app you can use to morph two faces together to create one.
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