All Same, All Different (2014) is a diptych depicting my twin-sister and myself and was made as a comment on the growing racism and xenophobia in Sweden. The work was produced in May 2014, three months before the general election in Sweden, in which the nationalist and right-wing party Sverigedemokraterna gained 13% of the votes. In 2022 gained 22% of the votes, making it the second largest party in the Swedish parliament.

The photographic portrait holds a significant historical role in the creation of ideas surrounding sameness and otherness. In the early 20th century portraiture was produced within the pseudo sciences physiognomy and eugenics, for example by Francis Galton and Alphonse Bertillon, and by Herman Lundborg at the State Institute of Racial Biology in Uppsala, Sweden. These pseudo sciences included the study of twins. Identical twins were measured, weighed and photographed. In All Same, All Different I utilise my own identity as a non-identical twin. This becomes a starting point for a suggestion of humanity as unmeasurable and a reminder of the paradoxical role of the photograph as a visual marker of both sameness and difference.