Foreign Body is an ongoing project that explores the relationship between the body and identity, questioning traditional conceptions of corporeality, the male nude and photography. I was interested to depict the body as a place of interface between the subject and the other, rather than a protective envelope that defines and unifies our limits.
The body’s boundaries are questioned and the closure and integrity of the self is placed in doubt, as is the stability of photography as a digital medium. The body is no longer the space that secures the idea of self, it is the domain where the self is contested and called into question.
In the digital age the old certainties of photography have faded and its definition has shifted towards a medium that is infinitely mutable, unstable and fragmented, mirroring the characteristics of ambiguity and fluidity I wish to highlight in the bodies and identities of my subjects.