This quietly spoken gentle man was a little shy and nervous at the start of the photoshoot; which merely highlights what a bizarre occurrence these photoshoots are. Why would you place yourself in the situation whereby you are expected to disrobe for a complete stranger and expose your body, warts and all to the unforgiving gaze of today’s hyper-accurate cameras? Continue reading
After capturing some good quality banal shots of this subject’s personal possessions on my first visit I was under pressure to keep up this quality when I returned specifically to photograph his naked portraits. Continue reading
I wished to become part of this project myself; after all it is hardly fair that I ask this of my subjects without being willing to display myself in a similar way. However the naked self-portrait is proving to be more difficult to achieve than I first envisioned. Continue reading
The gaze and the ethics of looking are concepts that are particularly relevant to the way I work. With the majority of my practice centred around the male nude it is fascinating to explore the politics of the penis as well. Continue reading
While working on the Polaroid Project (Dialogue For…) I have also been exploring other means of masking by bringing in mirrors to represent several stranded ideas; the idealised self, the voyeur, shyness and parallel existences (think science fiction or Alice in Wonderland). Continue reading
