SERIES 1 #1

This is a portrait-oriented photo series. I emphasized the use of a deadpan expression on the subject and contrasted it with interventions to their head and body. These interventions either distort or veil the expression of the subject completely, and while the objects in the photos may change the subject's expression does not.

I also experimented with vulnerability and access to the subject, having them unclothed in some photos and changing the amount of access the viewer has. The vulnerability aspect stems from some of the sexual connotations present relating to bondage, loss of voice/power, explicit language, and the exchange of gaze and unbalanced power dynamic between viewer and subject.

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