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STUDIES
This body of work operates as an archive of mediated intimacy, examining how bodies are rehearsed, withheld, and negotiated within contemporary image cultures. Rather than producing definitive portraits or narratives, the images accumulate as studies: durational encounters shaped by repetition, obstruction, and delay.
Nudity and erotic charge appear not as spectacle, but as conditions of proximity and labor. Bodies are shown resting, waiting, performing, or disengaging, often interrupted by blur, glare, or framing that resists immediacy. Masculinity emerges as tentative and unstable, shaped through gesture, collaboration, and the awareness of being seen.
By foregrounding process, mediation, and partial visibility, the work rejects pornographic and editorial demands for legibility and climax. Intimacy is treated as something that circulates unevenly; present but unresolved, visible yet withheld. The archive insists on ethical structure and staged access, allowing desire to remain active without being exhausted.
Situated between fine art photography, amateur image cultures, and fashion, the work reflects a moment in which intimacy is both hyper-visible and abstracted by systems of circulation. What remains central is not the image as object, but looking as a sustained practice; one that unfolds over time and resists closure.
Troy / 2026
Calvin / 2025
Gaige / 2025Sadler / 2025
Nic / 2025
Bruno / 2025
Isaac /2025
Sawbuck / 2025
Noah / 2025
Milan / 2025
Joshua / 2025
Mike / 2025 John / 2026
Jinan / 2025Guillermo / 2026
Dylan / 2020
Milan / 2020Jesse / 2025Ernesto / 2025
Owen / 2026