Growing up an identical twin, there were certain questions I got asked time and again - how do people tell you apart? Do you ever switch places? This idea that I was, and still am, somehow so indistinguishable from someone else, that I could easily pass as them by sitting in their seat in a classroom, became an exciting feeling. I am intrigued by the nature of identity, how fluid it is, and how one can easily perform another's identity by simply choosing to do so.

Being that my father and brother are both doctors, I stand out as the male in the family without a medical degree. In this series of portraits, I perform my identical twin brother's and my father's professions. I see a similar dynamic at play between the doctor/patient relationship and the photographer/subject relationship. With so many strict rules regarding who can and cannot touch whom and when and how, I find the licensed physician to have an fascinating power: to manipulate and treat the entire human body, down to the microscopic elements. The usual dynamics of power that define human relationships go through a visual breakdown in this space; gestures of examination become confused with gestures of affection become confused with gestures of subjection. And when these doctors become patients, the assumed expertise and power over the body vanishes as they too become passive objects of the doctor's actions. On the examination table, the lines that exist between scrutiny, criticism, fetishism and intimacy become blurred.