NoFilter by Glesni Morgan

from BA Photography · Looking for Missing Pieces · Graduate Publication 2022

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#NoFilter

Glesni Morgan

#NoFilter is a series exploring the performance of changing one’s appearance on social media platforms. I want to examine how filters start to erode one’s identity in the stripping back of one’s ‘natural’ appearance through the addition of the app’s filter tools that become more normalized and necessary. The ‘face’ is constructed in the performance of posting. Whilst these facial filters appear harmless at first, they inevitably become a mask to conceal one’s real identity. This series of ‘self-portraits’ is comprised of multiple ‘appearances’ of myself from a natural appearance to a very unnatural edited appearance, all available through the easy use of editing tools. These filters have become an obsession for some, especially young girls, increasingly confused about the relation between appearance and the ‘real’.