Hello, My Name Is

By Margot Reed
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A big theme of college is the idea that you get an opportunity to recreate yourself to the image that you would like. However, we’re still at a malleable time in our life where we’re living in an environment where you are interacting with fellow students every day. These interactions can help or hinder your process of finding your own identity and self-worth. This photo series, titled “Hello, My Name Is,” tries to look at the way labels and the way people address us and how it affects our creation and preservation of self-identity. I went around Ohio Wesleyan’s campus and asked students to write down what is applied to them by others. These were some of their answers.

Some images contain profanity.

Sweet
Sweet
OMG! Your so funny
OMG! Your so funny
Greek Woman
Greek Woman
Young lady
Young lady
Stoner
Stoner
Frat Boy/Fraternity Gentleman
Frat Boy/Fraternity Gentleman

Chubby

Cocksucker
Cocksucker
Asian
Asian
Hippy
Hippy
Southerner
Southerner
Interracial
Interracial
Solitary
Solitary
City Boy
City Boy
You're always so happy!
You’re always so happy!
Terrorist
Terrorist

Quiet

"You're pretty enough that I didn't think you would be smart."
“You’re pretty enough that I didn’t think you would be smart.”
Weirdo
Weirdo
Black struggle
Black struggle