Portraits of Her (2006) is my graduate project from my BA and grew out from my interest in androgyny on the one hand and portrait history on the other. Some of the women we see in these diptychs replied to an ad that I had placed on Gumtree in London. Some were my friends. I approached these women with questions on self-identity and androgyny. At the time, imagery of women in mainstream media was overwhelmingly traditionally feminine and with female masculinity particularly marginalised. With Portraits of Her I proposed a parallel between the contemporary photograph of the female face and the depiction of otherness in early 20th century photography. Drawing on photographic portraiture as a method of classification in physiognomy, this work explored a re-reading of femininity as a fictitious category, suggesting diversity to the very order of gender.