In Same Different Person, I take single portraits of people I know moving between places they frequent.

I try to cram my thoughts as the observer and theirs as the subject into each series of ten digital color photographs utilizing the same eye contact, focal length, composition, plus harsh single-flash unit for the most part. This similarity within difference highlights the way every entity navigates the world. While I know the number ten doesn’t sound ample in terms of perceiving the multidimensionality, uniformity or something in between of a persona, I make it up with a realist approach as not to waste any information in the frame. If it’s an intimate space, there’s no need for cleanup; if public, let the background interfere at all times. The person chooses the clothes, accessories and props they see fit after discussing the shooting locations, which might just actually be them in action, and I capture when I feel like going out. Beside where to place the camera, I control pretty much nothing else. Everything is therefore done either within 48 hours or over months.

As someone who requires a lot of privacy to recharge after the draining act of socializing, I constantly adjust myself to various environments in and out, thus generating my curiosity about the possibility of similar patterns visually detected in others. This would be my first long-term project since there are so many beautiful human beings around me, and probably more as my journey continues, whom I wish to put in front of my lens. Neither the photographed individual nor I fully apprehend whether these images render reality, so that leaves the spectator and hopefully their own mosaic of a stranger’s life.