The ‘selfie’ has become ubiquitous as a tool of self-promotion online. In an age where social media platforms magnify the insecurities of a young woman’s appearance, I found myself presenting a controlled and contrived image in order to gain validation online. As a result, Millions of Me seeks to challenge the desire to conform to the idealised feminine image currently proliferated online.

Millions of Me is a series of self-portraits functioning as anti-selfies. By digitally corrupting the self-portraits beyond recognition, it presents an alternative self-image made up of millions of colour pixels. The reproduction of the idealised feminine image is disrupted in the process of the ‘glitch’ where my subjective control over the image is renounced. Thus, these self-portraits no longer depict the idealised representation of women, commonly commoditised on social media.

This act is a form of protest, critiquing and challenging the commodification of the selfie through corrupted data pixels that are a result of digital errors.