Simon Olmetti

I started this project gathering people that were experiencing some sort of transition and I soon realised that what I was actually creating was a piece of work about me through them. Identity, gender, sexuality are not fixed but in fact something fluid, they cannot be forced in strict boundaries but they exist as a cultural construct. The real self cannot be revealed through portraiture but only projected through performance. It cannot be represented in a single photograph but only revealed through a series of images, each showing a fragment of it, a hint, a faded resemblance of some aspect of the personality.

This series, therefore, is a succession of self-portraits.