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

[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~.