This social documentary series of street portraits explores the lack of identity in society. It looks at the alienation that the public has adopted in their everyday lives of ongoing issues in society like the homeless.
Social documentary photography is a recording of how the world looks with a social or environmental focus. It is a form of documentary photography aiming to draw the attention of the public on social issues. The social issue I will be exploring is alienation (isolation). Alienation is a theorethical theory developed by Karl Marx in which it describes the isolating, dehumanizing effects of working 'within a capital system of production'. Social alienation is described as the experience of individuals and/or groups that feel as if they are dissconnected from the values and social relations of their communitty/ society.
The method I have used to show the separational gap is by photographing in a similar style like diCorcia's Heads series - by separating the individual from the background.