Persona: Family Portraits

With these “Family Portraits,” I am exploring ideas of authenticity and performativity. The photos feel intentionally staged, as portraits often do. Which of these portraits represents the true, authentic selves of the (self-defined) family being photographed? How do we know? My hope in playing with ideas of hyper-performativity in forms of portraiture is to question the idea of the authentic self, to make the viewer as well as the subjects puzzle over the idea of identity, fabricated and real, possible and impossible, familiar and foreign.