Projected Identity
Scotland is a country with very strong iconology, and so often when people dont fit the idea of what a Scottish person is expected to look like they are considered to be, and treated as otherly. “Where are you from?” is a question which is commonly asked of Scottish people from minority ethnic backgrounds, even after being heard speaking with a thick Scottish accent.
Projected Identity is a collection of portraits created in 2014-2015 of Scottish people who identified with being othered due to societal perceptions of their skintone. These portraits are lit by anonymously sourced 35mm kodachrome slides shot in Scotland throughout the 1960’s-1970’s. These slides symbolise outdated attitudes which should have no place in a modern Scotland.
One of the portrait subjects is Simpsons own daughter who moves through the projections to symbolise her own journey as a mixed race Scottish person with interactions often fragmented due to racism, prejudice and stereotyping.
Read MoreProjected Identity is a collection of portraits created in 2014-2015 of Scottish people who identified with being othered due to societal perceptions of their skintone. These portraits are lit by anonymously sourced 35mm kodachrome slides shot in Scotland throughout the 1960’s-1970’s. These slides symbolise outdated attitudes which should have no place in a modern Scotland.
One of the portrait subjects is Simpsons own daughter who moves through the projections to symbolise her own journey as a mixed race Scottish person with interactions often fragmented due to racism, prejudice and stereotyping.
