She uses ‘icons’ from subcultures, fetish scenes and ‘general’ erotic imagery and redefines them in bundled stylized images. Strong visual fixations of sexual desires and erotic fantasies, sprouted from the brain of the American photographer Justice Howard.
Her work balances between erotic glamour photography, dominated by Playboy’s culture fix, and conceptual photography that can easily stand the comparison with high art photographers like Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Although the substantive side of her work seems quite intuitive and open, her technical and formal approach is setup carefully and prepared extensively. Every aspect of the photograph, and the shoot, is worked out equally and with technical and artistic perfection. There’s not much room for spontaneous interaction but it does give her work the timeless ‘monumental’ feeling that’s so remarkable for her work.
The image that’s haunting me for days now, is the one of the woman lying on a bed surrounded by plastic sex dolls. She’s in the same pose, has the same non-expression but heck she’s staring at me, really disturbing. It’s to serious to be humorous, too much a statement to laugh or smile about, especially knowing it’s a woman smacking this image right in to my face.
