The best part of me is you

"The best part of me is you" is a project discovering my own identity as a man, by using photography I am about to decipher who I am through the people I am drawn to photograph. I can see how the more effeminate man becomes more accepted in society as we move into a generation of men who are more openly expressive in challenging what is typically conceived as masculine. Some of the men photographed in the project I’ve known for years and others i've only had a few interactions with before asking to photograph them but all of them have shown me a part of my own identity in them.

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James Greenhalgh

From the British Journal of Photography (James Greenhalgh speaks):

I wasn’t supposed to get into photography. I was 15, doing my GCSEs, and I had to pick subjects for my AS-Levels. I had no prior background in the arts and I chose all academic subjects. I was later told that Anthropology, one of the subjects that I had picked, had been taken off the curriculum and I had to select another subject. Photography sounded the least boring so I reluctantly chose it. At that point in my life I thought I was going to become a computer programmer.