THE-SELF-AS-OTHERS SELFIE (2009 onwards)
Look closely. All these images are of the photographer Olivier Culmann dressed up as the quintessential Indian man. He uses his staged self-portraits as a tool to explore the representation of self and otherness. These photos depict coded constructs that contribute to building one’s self identity: Religion, caste, social class, occupation and regional origin. But it begs the quintessential Indian question: Was the identity of one’s own choosing or was it fate?
Source: LibraryOfCongress, RingedLibrary, NewYorker, NASA, BBC