Nowadays it's no big deal to have three jobs at the same time. We live in a society were it's normal you are 10 things at the same time. You can be a daughter and a mother and gardner and a cook and be a professor at the same time. You take on different rolls that identify you. Because we are more than our education, more than our profession, more than our jobs.
Someone wearing a military uniform can look very serious and strong. But do you ever think about what's behind that uniform? A machine gunner, a guard commander, a warfare officer, an air force commander but also normal people like you and me.
Photographer Devin Mitchell made a photo series in which he shows people in their different life rolls. You can be with the United States Navy, but also be a mother of two. It's like they are leading a double life. The pictures can be pretty confronting, but they show us the reality of people living in two different worlds. And like I said before: they are more than their jobs.
I think the concept of the pictures are very strong and tell a confronting story. This project has a good connection to the theme 'shifting identities'. Back in the days, when our parents were little kids your job was your identity and nothing more. Now we can identify ourselves with the things we love, the things we like and the things we do best without connecting our jobs to it. I think this is a mindset that is growing more and more in our society and hopefully will keep growing. 
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