Camera Intima

This work is about women and their relationship to their body, perceptions and feelings. Participants join the project upon invitation. Every step is based on confidentiality, caring and consent. The participant and the artist have a conversation about women’s bodies. While the interview is recorded, the exchange is informal and casual. This creates a space in which ideas and emotions can be shared in a safe environment. The elaboration of the picture is a shared reflection between the artist and the participant. The camera is a beer can pinhole, in studio conditions. Exposure is 5 min. It's a performance-like act for the participants. The images are approved or discarded by the models. The original is a negative on photographic paper of 13x18 cm, then turned into positives. The pinhole creates distortions, the blur induces a reverie-kind-of-state in viewers. It changes the way we see ourselves and challenges the classical standards we have. The artist collects sentences from interviews and mix them to make a pluri-vocal portrait that can be read or spoken to accompany the images. The purpose is to make a photographic series of as many women as possible. We act in front of portraits like with mirrors : checking sameness and parricularities. The viewers can look at the pictures, read the texts and think about their own feelings and relation to their bodies.