Cultural Identity and Photographic Portraiture: Methodological Challenges and the Creative Process

This chapter questions the methodological challenges that the practice-based research has posed and explains the creative process that supported the development of the photographic work. The theoretical background led me to reflect on practical and creative solutions when producing portraits, and a series of key points about this visual journey is developed. The challenges of the representation of a group of people with individual photographic portraits are discussed. The chapter underlines how previous work and the understanding of a creative process can be precursory of later research and why the inclusion of the landscape versus maintaining a neutral background has links with paintings from the Italian Renaissance.