After a long hiatus I wanted to do something outside my comfort zone. I tended to do traditional portraiture but I wanted to see how much could be expressed with just the body. I wanted to challenge myself to avoid depending on the familiarity of a beautiful face to ground the work.

Deviating from my comfort zone in another way was using a much narrower angle lens as a means of sort of fragmenting the subject so that the focus is the abstract simplicity of their parts instead of the familiarity of the whole body. The same reason why I choose (and am choosing for a while) to shoot primarily in black and white. To keep focus on the composition.

I also kind of wanted to deal with the idea of touch starvation. I’m a sucker for physical intimacy, past even the sexual sense. It’s a whole love language to me. You don’t realize how much you like to be held and touched until you’ve gone a long time without it, ya dig?