Your self-portrait... without you in it

[denny]

A friend of mine got an interesting assignment for her photography BTec this week. She has to do a self-portrait... without her in the shot.  She's currently accumulating things that she thinks define 'her' and arranging them in interesting patterns...

I thought it might be interesting to consider what I'd like to put in a self-portrait of this type, and to hear what other people might pick to represent themselves too...

• Laptop.  I am first and foremost a geek - there's no denying it.
• Motorbike.  I'll always be a biker, even when I don't own a bike... and right now I happen to own a very nice one  :)
• Leather jacket.  Clothing seems such a shallow thing to define yourself by, but then it is what most people's first impression of us is probably based on... and I wear a leather both because of the bike and because of the subcultures I lurk within (metal, goth, fetish, etc).

I guess that's me done.  Did I miss anything obvious?

Comments

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting. I would have chosen similar things to represent myself, but those things are intricate enough by themselves to warrant being the subject of a photograph by themselves. I would choose something that represented my interests, symbolised for example. A scrap of leather, arranged or perhaps entwined with a stick of RAM and maybe the back-end of a wooden model motorcycle I have. Perhaps even take it close up so that the far end of the RAM and leather is out-of-focus, representing how it's difficult to see how far my personality stretches in that direction.

Hmm, quite inspiring :) Might have to do something like that.. but I doubt it would make an icon :/

Also, I need to get a digital camera too lol. In the mean time I can borrow a friend's.. :)

[kissycat1000.livejournal.com]

OK, my turn:

Hair serum
Navel jewellery - silver with purple stones in both balls
Silver Cross - Gothic style necklace hung on a black thong
Black kneehigh boots - Leather, with 3.5 inch heels
Purple rucksack - with black cat embroidered on the front pocket
Badge/button - text = 'I love pussy'

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I don't know what i'd put in it...i could put in my elf ears, not attached to me, but the whole point is that they *are* attached to me, otherwise i would just look like a try-hard.
Hmm.
Possibly the combined contents of my pretty shiny things box and my make up/prosthetics box. And a sword still glowing red, since i probably ought to put some materials in there somewhere too.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to put a sword in mine, even though I don't actually own one (yet - they're on my xmas list this year in various forms)

I feel like I should own a rapier, so I should put one in the pic anyway... if nothing else, because the rest makes me sound so dull  :-\

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I think that for a lot of people stuff like makeup and washing stuff might be worthwhile, because it's a self-portrait in another way too, in that you draw yourself on yourself.

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

...like this (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=kaet&itemid=15049), you mean?

~g~ Stalker? What, me?

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[kaet.livejournal.com]

:) A very useful stalker, too. I'd completely failed to find that picture, which is why I didn't post a link to it. Thanks, ~g~.

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

What an interesting question.
I'd have:

-- a heap of books of different kinds
- some fresh flowers, and
- the poster of Amélie!

As for mine...

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

* Duran Duran 'Careless Memories' 12"
* Visage 'Visage' 12"
* Apoptygma Berzerk 'Seven'
* Various purple eyeshadows all spilled into one another
* Shiny black spiky collar
* Small china kitten
* Sharp decorative knife of some sort

Hmm...anything else?

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