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For the last photograph in this collection I’m featuring my friend once more, Canadian nomadic circus artist Jonathan Fortin.
It was taken a little more than a year and a half after the first featured photo, 7th in this collection.
Exactly one week after I photographed Sigrid, the 3rd in this collection.
We made it on the roof of Jonathan’s building in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montreal.
As opposed to #7, this one took place on a very hot summer day.
We used his flatmate’s Balinese mask which he bought in Bali, Indonesia.
I never used photos from this session in the main project.
July 31, 2016. Montreal, Canada.
Why do we display our faces but cover our bodies? In 2010, Ben Hopper started work on 'Naked with Masks', a portrait series that parodied self-censorship and 'indecent exposure' by photographing anonymous models in public locations – completely nude except for their eye-catching masks. The shoots were unauthorised, and, following their viral success, soon censored online via an account ban on the newly founded Instagram.
This companion series to Hopper’s iconic original project resonates with its themes of censorship, identity and acceptance. Each shot captures the seconds before a final picture was taken, with models posing to fix the framing and exposure before the big reveal – and before escaping the scene.
Ironically, this covered-up collection can finally pass the ‘no entry’ signs of social media and society at large. Masked, discreet, anonymous – disguised and unreal.
Collect on Sloika.
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For the last photograph in this collection I’m featuring my friend once more, Canadian nomadic circus artist Jonathan Fortin.
It was taken a little more than a year and a half after the first featured photo, 7th in this collection.
Exactly one week after I photographed Sigrid, the 3rd in this collection.
We made it on the roof of Jonathan’s building in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montreal.
As opposed to #7, this one took place on a very hot summer day.
We used his flatmate’s Balinese mask which he bought in Bali, Indonesia.
I never used photos from this session in the main project.
July 31, 2016. Montreal, Canada.
Why do we display our faces but cover our bodies? In 2010, Ben Hopper started work on 'Naked with Masks', a portrait series that parodied self-censorship and 'indecent exposure' by photographing anonymous models in public locations – completely nude except for their eye-catching masks. The shoots were unauthorised, and, following their viral success, soon censored online via an account ban on the newly founded Instagram.
This companion series to Hopper’s iconic original project resonates with its themes of censorship, identity and acceptance. Each shot captures the seconds before a final picture was taken, with models posing to fix the framing and exposure before the big reveal – and before escaping the scene.
Ironically, this covered-up collection can finally pass the ‘no entry’ signs of social media and society at large. Masked, discreet, anonymous – disguised and unreal.
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