But Where Are You Really From?
Amy Masters
Amy Masters’ series But Where Are You Really From? explores the experience of British Chinese adoptees into predominantly white families. The visual concepts consist of three typological images per person for each of the five photographed subjects, that is, face on and side profiles. The work refers to the concept of othering whereby photography from its inception is used as a tool of dominant Eurocentric practices of classifying people. The images are anchored in the 19th century typologies that classified persons as criminal, insane or colonised. They would be referred to as, quite simply, other. These images deal with otherness and its legacy from European history and power relations in combination with white privilege over centuries.
