Intimacy

Intimacy; a situation in which you have a close friendship or sexual relationship with someone: After many years photographing many subjects and projects, I realised I never photographed what is most important to me. To explore my inner world and my inner self, my close family and friends and most of all myself in relation to the rest of the world. It dawn on me that I fear intimacy and close relationships with the people around me. I never let them in and I never get close enough to any one else. I hadn't looked at myself in the mirror in a long time. This series of photographs explore the relationship with my closest friend to a deeper level, asking them to reveal something deeper, their secrets and their demons and at the same time my own fears and demons submerge into the light. Trying to overcome my own fears. How could I photograph these feelings? I´ve always had a problem with showing my feelings, expressing what I think, making myself understood, communicating what I feel and love. The photographs reflect these emotions; from loneliness, to confusion, to the intimacy and the complicity between the portrayed and myself.