human form
09.2025
Human Form is a series of black and white studio self-portraits that looks at the body through movement, shape, and gesture. The figure is photographed as something both vulnerable and strong, moving between softness, tension, exposure, and control. Rather than presenting the body as passive, the series treats it as active and self-directed.
The work is interested in the gaze and the many ways bodies are looked at, judged, desired, or misunderstood. By photographing myself, I become both the subject and the maker, controlling how my body is seen while also questioning what it means to be looked at. The series considers how the gaze shifts depending on gender, sexuality, ability, and power, and how the body can be seen as more than an object for someone else’s viewing.
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