Gazing Woman
Gazing Woman is a photo series in which people are portrayed as objects of sexual desire in self-determined portraits.
The series is a response to the "male gaze" and an attempt to add to such depictions from an explicitly female perspective.
It involves the portrayed people in the making by asking them the below questions.
They answer non-verbally in front of the camera.
Their portraits are embodied responses.
How would you feel if you were portrayed as an object of lust?
How do you imagine your own attractiveness visually?
How or from “which side” would you show yourself?
What posture do you adopt, how do you look when you find yourself attractive?
Do you feel comfortable in the role of an object of desire?
"For this picture I wanted to feel soft and sensual but also strong and animalistic at the same time."
"I'm finding my butt pretty cute and I like looking at it in the mirror when I'm lying like this."
"Attraction does not start in the physical body for me, mostly it starts with presence... what turns me on is a grounded, effortless, playful there-ness as the very baseline for connection."
"Sometimes when I'm dancing I feel hot and sexy."
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"It took me a long time to see my chest hair for what it is to me: beautiful and masculine."
"It starts in your mind."
"A gaze can empower, captivate, or slightly redefine who I am."
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