This series, entitled Affamées, is a feminine, plural french word for Starving.
Being in a long distance relationship from Paris to New-York, I first used photography as a vehicle for capturing the fleeting moments spent with my girlfriend, after months being apart during the Covid pandemic, starving for an embrace or a touch.
In this series, the raw, saturated images celebrates intimacy and nudity and reveals the urge of making visual memories anywhere - even the most common, day to day settings, such as a bed or a bath.
But as a body of work gradually emerged over the past 2 years, it became clear that even though these pictures are very private and personal, they reflect an authentic, not often seen, broader reality of a queer couple.
In a world where lesbian visibility is near non existent in the mainstream media, yet predominant in the pornographic culture, the fetishization of lesbians and queer women seems inevitable.
This brings an inauthentic vision of their reality that I aspire to correct by showing a glimpse of a genuine relationship.
This mix of invisibility and misrepresentation, made possible by heteronormativity and sexism, leaves lesbians starving for a more accurate depiction of their existence in Art, popular culture and mainstream media.
Through these images I strive to depict my personal experience as it relates to an overall queer love.
Despite significant progress in LGBTQ’s lives, the personal still is political and we cannot underestimate the power and cultural importance of representation.
