Nikki S Lee created a series of projects in which she endeavored to absorb the culture of the project, changing her appearance and behaviour to conform to that culture.  Once accepted into the culture she then asked a passer by to take a photograph of her and her “friends”.  Unlike Cindy Sherman, who works alone, Lee spends time creating the image appropriate to the culture in which she aims to infiltrate.

She said her aim was to examine cultural identity, and how we change in order to be part of a culture.  She was investigating fluidity and identity change.  However, I felt that there was another aspect to this.   She sold the photographs for surprisingly large sums of money, none of which went to the others in the photographs, nor were they accredited in any way.  Her work, to me seems exploitative.  She dreamt of being a film actress, but instead pursued a career in photography, but it seemed to me she was combining her love of acting with photography, rather than carrying out research into culture and fluidity.