This year I graduated with a very personal project.

I’m Anna and I don’t like to see my own reflection, not because I think I’m ugly but because I don’t identify myself with my appearance. My roots are in Poland and Malaysia, but my look only reflects the last one. I was born and raised in Belgium. My guts tell me I’m Belgian, but my look says no you don’t. Frustrating when everyone thinks like that. I have been raised without my father so I don’t have any relationship with him, his culture or my appearance. I was wondering, just like everyone else, who I really am. When I say I’m Belgian, they say no you’re not. I am so much more than you think. Throughout my process I wondered if I could show the viewer a different side of me. The side of who I really am beside my appearance.

These series of self portraits are showing the struggles of the confrontation I had with myself.