The way a culture is perceived to the eyes of an outsider is normally full of stereotypes (widely held but fixed and oversimplified idea of a particular person.) These Stereotypes are not unreal but rather incomplete. The lack of information only represent a tiny part of a whole reality, this tiny part is perceived to be the whole true which is a reason for overwhelm and saturation for the people who lives and practice these cultures.

Digital, 2015
© Martha Diaz Adam

We all have more than just One Single Story.

Stereotypes are biased concepts focused only on One Single Story. This conceptual series of three photographs support the story of a man how has lived his life between two cultures. We are all shaped by our traditions and the beliefs of the culture we have been raised in, sometimes we carry with that weight through the development of our lives. When moving into another country, with a society completely different than our own, our way of thinking may be modified in order to achieve the process of adaptation. This changes may result positive, but may slightly deviate us from our ancestor's beliefs. The culture where we were raised in may reflect half of who we are. At the moment we move somewhere else we carry it, but we also let in part of the new culture we started living in and in the end, in between these two different types of beliefs there is us, without one or another, but nothing else than what we choose to take from each of them.

Digital, 2015
© Martha Diaz Adam