I’ve long been a fan of Jocelyn Lee— then I read this great interview with her in Ahorn Magazine and she perfectly nailed exactly where my head is at with some of the new photographic work I’m making (which includes nudes):
I think you can tell from all I’ve said that I’m driven by existential themes in my work—our bodies in space and time, our internal thoughts, our basic relationship to others, death, aging, sexuality, family etc—and it just seems that these issue can be addressed more honestly when people take their clothes off. That sounds strange, but taking our clothes off is a literal and metaphoric state of openness. It is hard to be naked in front of others. It is hard to be seen naked. It is brave in an essential way. The flaws we imagine are so much more visible when we are naked—and this goes for psychological flaws as well as physical. So nudity is important to me. Nakedness.
Read the rest of the article here.
