My work is a self portrait inspired by my alter ego, Journey. I’ve used light-ing, composition and a few accessories that I had on hand to create a photograph that tells the audience more about my persona. Using the cues I’ve given within the photograph, viewers should be able to infer who my alter ego might be. With this work I’m trying to compare historical portraits in art history to contemporary self-ies without writing them off as invalid. I’m making the statement that I’m a photog-rapher who uses the technology around me to manipulate my images in similar ways well known portrait photographers did in the past. I was influenced by Diane Arbus and her photography of unusual or rarely seen street life as well as Cindy Sherman and her photographs of herself taking on multiple personas. I used rule of thirds, light and cropping to create an interesting composition. The rule of thirds helped balance the composition without placing the subject right in the middle in order to keep your eye moving across the photograph. The light and cropping are symbolic of my alter ego’s relationship to myself as I am in everyday life since my al-ter ego is extension of myself. The work comments on society today and what is popular in culture and the media and compares it previous works of art that re-flected society at the time.