Body Project



For the body project I wanted to address profiling and stereotyping. When we are submerged in the public sphere we naturally look, compare or profile the people who surround us. Cultural cues from television, movies, family values, or peers gives us the ‘labels’ we use to profile these people when you never know for sure the story of the person being stereotyped. To represent this idea I used found images from google images or flickr of people who I know nothing about and labeled them. I constructed these images as a Polaroid because polariods were instant photos that came out of the camera. Parallel, we instantly profile people and often disregard them and continue on with our day. The way I have labeled them is suppose to make the viewer think about the stereotype and the viewer’s reaction may be to disagree with some of the labels, but the point is that we don’t know for sure as they are found images.
            Using found images of people made me feel really uncomfortable because of the fact that I was giving them labels, labels may have not been true, and not crediting the photographer who shot the image. I feel that there needs to be media persuading the mass that profiling is suppose to feel uncomfortable as everyone is a person regardless of their lifestyle choices or nationality and heritage instead of comedy shows for example, laughing at ‘stereotypes.’