Robots

Robots is a series of six portraits, each composed of multiple photographs of the subject's face that have been manipulated and layered to form a new, seemingly continuous identity. Inorganic lighting and exaggerated inconsistencies in tone and color between each of the photographic fragments explores the tension between recording and representation that exists in all portraiture but often remains obscured by familiar context. The portrait’s detail and size emphasize its duality, inviting the viewer to experience the image at close range as a collection of individual photographs and, from a distance, as a single unique composition. The alien features of the composite subjects suggest the existence of a second-order, synthetic identity in the photographic universe: a conflicted identity built by humans from human bits and pieces but whose sum total is something else entirely.

pZ Hine is a photographer and software developer working in Brooklyn, New York. He is interested in exploring the ways technology intersects with and reshapes human consciousness.