People Who Look Like Me

Cultural Writing. Art. Photography. The first artist in the 1 Artist 1 Concept series is San Francisco resident Alice Shaw. Her book, PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE ME, involves having herself photographed with friends, family, and other bystanders whom she feels she shares common traits with. Her project is a conceptual act in which Alice, as Director, creates an enlightening scene. It is not about the photographic document as much as it is about the activity of uniting people in a search for identity. She reveals the beauty in our shared connections. In this body of work she has taken the theory that sometimes when we photograph, we are pointing the camera at something we see reflected in ourselves. What she has done is come out from behind the camera and posed for the photographs with a subject she sees mirrored in herself.Shaw, Alice is the author of 'People Who Look Like Me', published 2006 under ISBN 9780977744206 and ISBN 0977744205.