During the group tutorial, I was lead to look at the Marx Brothers. 5 brothers in a family comedy act, originally from New York, enjoyed success in broadway and motion pictures from 1900 to the 1950s. Each of them talented and unique, they made their way into singing and then into comedy.
From my time as 'cloning' my sister Claire, I felt there were similarities that linked to the Marx brothers mirror scene in their movie "Duck Soup". The way I became my sister - adapting her mannerisms, clothing, attitude etc.
"Sometimes they don’t quite understand why I want to document their everyday life. Its an interesting challenge to make them understand how fascinated I am by this symbiotic existence that is so natural to them."
Whilst at the Sony World Photography Awards at Somerset House, London, I came across a photographer Maja Daniels. I was really fascinated by her photos of Monette & Mady, identical twins who are inseparable and have lived their whole lives closely together. After further research into the photographer and this long-term project documenting the lives of Monette & Mady, the images become as much about sociology as they do about photography.
They refer to themselves as "I" and not "we", and often finish each others sentences. Neither Mady nor Monette are married or have children. They live their lives closely together and they have created an image as one. They act, dance and model as a couple, and Paris is their stage.
“If we ever go out dressed in different outfits people will come up to us wondering why we are arguing. Perhaps it has become even more important for them to see us dressed identically than it is for us.”
http://majadaniels.com/projects/monette-mady/
I also had a look into a National Geographic Article about twins which was published in January 2012, which explored not only the common factors of being a twin, but also some startling differences between twins - wether through separation, environment or DNA. This article was also accompanied with some amazing photographs.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/twins/miller-text
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Diana Bozza comforts her identical twin, Deborah Faraday, at an assisted living facility in Front Royal, Virginia. Diagnosed eight years ago with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Deborah is now completely disabled, while Diana shows no symptoms of the illness. |
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| Juan Barbachano (right) and his identical twin, Liana Hoemke, hold a photo of them as little girls with their baby brother. Juan, born Juanita, says that from an early age he felt like a male trapped in a female's body. Ten years ago, at 32, Juan began treatments to change gender. |
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