Submission

For my project „Moments“ I photographed people in the moment they had an orgasm. For me photography is not about the picture you see, it´s about the process how it arises and how a content can be presented and being communicated. The centre of my series is the orgasm, but also the aim getting people closer to this moment in public which is hopefuly shared by everone. For many people it is still a tabu talking about the sexuality and the experiences about that topic. So I want to give an opportunity of communication with my work and I want to give a different perspective looking at the topic sexuality. I also want to find out how a slip of paper which has just 2 dimensions influence the third dimension. A person who just saw my photographes for the first time without knowing anything about my project, does not know that the portrait is about the orgasm. So what do you feel while looking at it? How can the viewer expand the meaning of the pictures with his freedom of interpretation? Maybe he feels what the person on the picture feels? Can I communicate emotions and a content through pictures without you knowing what it is about? (At my first exhibition with my project „moments“ I did not tell the viewers about the content of the picture and so I found out that they all felt it in their own way.) Another interesting aspect of my photographs is that I achieved it to catch a moment without any control of how the model looks or how it is presented. I was always searching for that moment when I photographed. Most of the time a model chances the way it looks or the way it moves the body immediately when camera is on it. But while you are having an orgasm your whole body gets out of control and your are getting subject of your emotional reflexes. Thats how I created truthfulness and authenticity. Alina Oswald