Identities Are Not as Transparent or Unproblematic as We Think

Our representations are deeply interwoven with the history that every one brings to the moment of representation. Just like good photographers, we need to come to know our tools very well. Stuart hall has spoken and written in particularly clear and incisive ways about identities as open ended work of representation in progress. And i quote, and the first quote on a hendad, identity is not as transparent or as unproblematic as we think.