Originally born in Korea, Nikki S. Lee (which is her self-picked Americanized name) wanted to be an actress at first. However, she eventually decided to go to film school to see the other end of the camera. Nikki is very well known for doing a series of pictures that encapsulate different identities and behaviors within those identities. In the picture below, she is showing skater culture. To do this, she is wearing loose fitting clothes, sneakers, and elbow pads. She even messed up her hair to give off a laid-back attitude. I chose to emulate "slackers." Rather, I wanted to represent someone who does not go to school and who really does not care much about anything. On the topic of these identity photos, Nikki says that she feels they are all extensions of herself because her own identity is fluid.
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