The typical modern genre of self-portrait "selfie" is characterized by markers such
as the presence of a hand with a smartphone in the frame, frequent anonymity combined
with exhibitionism, creating a strange blend of mutually exclusive meanings.

The lens makes the original image unrecognizable, turning it into something else.

The distorting effect transforms the selfie subjects into "aliens," strange, blurry figures.

In this "secondary" process of photographing, the clear boundaries of identity are lost:
the original selfie stops being a regular self-portrait and becomes an experimental form
of expression.

The use of a special lens and re-photography from the screen translates
the familiar digital image into a semi-erased, almost abstract format. A metaphorical gap
is revealed between what we want to show (exhibitionism) and what remains private (anonymity).