19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
The Identity of Identity

The photo shows a thumb of my friend. We were exploring the ideas of portrait and identity. The paradoxical photo is very generic but also very specific at the same time. Like a portrait is of a person, a thumbprint is the portrait of identity.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Pune, India
Camera: ONEPLUS A5000
Copyright: © Sanidhya Shah