It doesn't matter how I feel2013
My work seeks to examine what it means to be an Australian in our contemporary multicultural context. I am particularly interested in the experience of young Muslims in Australia; how they perceive themselves and how others perceive them.
In a political climate where people with names like mine, and who look like me, occupy the role of a ‘bad guy’ in the popular imagination, a person can feel powerless. The denial of a person’s beliefs, culture and race strips them of their identity, and in doing so, strips them of their humanity. ‘It doesn’t matter how I feel’ is a self-portrait that investigates this problematical process.
Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
