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Corinne Silva
These Polaroid pictures were not intended to be portraits of me and were of only momentary value to the photographer who made them. This collection spans a three-year period I spent working as a photographer's assistant. I have ceased collecting these photographs as the photographer I work with recently started using a digital camera. These Polaroids will become relics of a certain photographic age, as film becomes defunct and digital takes over.
The photographs show me acting as a stand-in for people about to be photographed for editorial or other commercial use. Blank faced, I hold the pose of various writers, farmers, singers and sportspeople in order to check the lighting for each set-up. Through an interplay between image and title they become lenticular portraits as I merge with Jamelia, Maureen Lipman, Peter Ackroyd, and a seafood inspector on a remote Scottish island. The photographs are of me and they're not. With my distant expression they could be read as intriguing and enigmatic, or simply a person gazing vacantly. The two become the same; the mystery is that there is no mystery.
Me Me Me – Stand In
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| Paolo Nutini |
