<p>This project explores how fashion, makeup and styling act as tools for self-expression and identity. Drawing from my personal experience as a twin, I reflect on how we assert individuality through appearance. A key focus is the passport photo, a format that is rigid and expressionless yet meant to define us. By challenging it through photography, moving image and styling, I reflect on the fluidity of identity and how visual cues shape how we’re seen. </p>

Image of my fabric prints hung from wooden supports in a corridor with natural lighting.

Two riso prints on coloured paper, one blue, one purple of a childhood passport image

Two riso prints on coloured paper, one pink, one yellow of an image from my final shoot. Girl in braids with pink eyeshadow and studs above eyebrows

Face Value

Sketchbook pages running through the process of developing my personas

Two poster outcomes. One with he words “identity is a perfomance” written on lips 

This project explores how fashion, makeup and styling act as tools for self-expression and identity. Drawing from my personal experience as a twin, I reflect on how we assert individuality through appearance. A key focus is the passport photo, a format that is rigid and expres...

Alessandra Barroso Kosanovic

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