Some Bodies; the blank background photo is a conceptual and style-challenging close-up of the materials and ideas at play. This project uses DSLR photographs to show similar pictures in scope, action, creation, and purpose. Together the photographs are meant to inspire intrigue, introspection, and ponderance upon the idea of division in a recognizable setting. The photographs aim for this goal using both the same persons and different persons doing commonplace activities. In each photo there is at least one person with a black mask covering the entirety of their head, obscuring their unique features. This idea was chosen so that the viewer cannot identify certain persons and thus struggle to assume much about them. It is my hope that this outgroup and ingroup dynamic and identity obfuscation invites the viewer to reflect on their assumptions, differences, and personal identity inherent to their own viewership of self and by others. Each person is supposed to find their own place in the pictures. The center photograph is important as it breaks the borders of the art and removes the setting, placing connection and division as the central theme of the project. In the future, I would like to create more group photos with this concept in mind. Cory Gul is a Chicagoland artist and 2022 University of Illinois At Chicago student.








