At first I thought this (click the link above, I’ll wait) was pretty cool…until I thought:
1) About the “normal/regular” photographers/models who have been harassed by law enforcement and just regular “concerned citizens” for shooting non-nude content in public places with a “big camera.”
2) About some of the compositions, that, if you really look at them, are snapshots that could have been done (and maybe were) with a phone. Maybe that was the point. Meh.
3) About that whole “look-at-me, look at-meeee” thing that amounts to “stunt work” to get attention, contemplative articles like this one and ultimately that gallery showing gig. The hand of social media moves through this…
4) About, if this is editorial, what the message
exactly is?? OR is it just tired old spin of “nude grrl posing in an old
building” type of thing??
Urban decay/nude in public is so 2005… even though some still think it
is new and edgy and along the same lines as angel wings, railroad
tracks, gas masks, glam on cemetery gravestones or that ‘bathtub of
blood’ crime sceney thing I occasionally get asked to do. Ugh.
5) About who the photographer knew and what relationships were used to again, not get arrested, but shoot nudes in public freely which implies 'art’ by way of privilege. Yes…I went there because it was somewhere to go…
Honestly these are not bad photos….but age has made me question things more. My own stuff definitely and, yes, that of others.
“Is it art?”
Fuck dude. I’m not going to answer that.
I don’t do art….
(Just as a side note: The Neanderthal male dominant Bro input in the comments sections of this article are worthy of analysis in a thesis paper.)