Those Guys

Wellington Street Projects, Sydney
February 2017

Photographs: Document Photography

As individuals it is apart of our basic human instinct to project a different façade in order to achieve certain things at different points in our lives. We have the ability to deceptively alter our appearance in hope that we avoid certain judgement and gain acceptance, respect and ultimately happiness. We all possess a public and private faceand the link between the values either of these faces maintain ultimately conveys how realistic ones façade is at conveying the inner workings of an individuals personality.

To many the thought of this behaviour may seem foreign and we would be quick to judge people who we think may display these altered traits. However, in the current social climate a great importance is placed upon our ability to create an ‘attractive’façade through our use of social media and also our immediate appearance to those we encounter on a day to day basis. This image ultimately leads to judgement from others and an expectation about how something should be. Quite often this stereotype is a distortion of reality and as we begin to delve beyond the initial façade and discover other areas of ones existence, these representations become revised, hierarchies are broken down and distinct contrasts are discovered.