One Photographer
on Capturing the Women
in His Life
“Growing up looking at my mother and other women in my life, they were always easy on my heart, mind, and soul.”
Photographer Dorian Gray talks us through his project “Corree” and his take on identity.
“Green has the healing power and is understood to be the most restful and relaxing color for the human eye to view.” This was the inspiration for this visual story. Growing up looking at my mother and other women in my life, they were always easy on my heart, mind, and soul. Especially my mother, who knew how to calm and uplift when I was upset, and give joy and peace constantly. There was a constant green color dripping from her and has never left her.
Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Having a unique identity will set you apart from everyone else. We all have a certain image of ourselves – beliefs about the kind of person we are. Having a strong sense of identity seems to be desirable, something that brings comfort and security . Many people seem to spend a lot of time trying to figure out who they are, what they want, and what they believe. And perhaps rightly so: having a strong identity certainly seems to have advantages. Identity is hard to change. Identity can be difficult to notice. Identity has unintended consequences. If you are willful, and careful, and wise, then you can cultivate the identity of the person you always wanted to be.
“Growing up looking at my mother and other women in my life, they were always easy on my heart, mind, and soul.”
