The passport exercise was about conveying my identity to others. Initially, I made a self-portrait, but it became problematic when it didn’t resemble me. I found problematic issues; How to pose in the artwork? Would wearing make-up be dishonest? In reflection, I established a new idea: A self-portraiture photograph with make-up exaggerating features on top. This is relevant as it represents coming to university feeling unready to show myself to everyone and depicts the use of make-up as a mask. Repeating the self-portrait without looking at the paper felt more genuine as I wasn’t making corrective changes based on what I thought it should look like. The Motivation for my idea came from seeing online complaints from transgender people about passport photo regulations, making them look very different to how they look every day. Inspired by classmates including fingerprints on their passports, I generated lipstick prints – changing the idea to work around my theme. A criticism of the piece was: “Would it be more appropriate if I wasn’t smiling, as passports don’t include emotion?”. My group suggested looking into Claire Tabouret’s portraits. I might develop the work making portraits with focal points centered on core features of make-up. Starting with a lipstick print and drawing a face around it. As well as look into the culture behind make-up.