In Sight Of My Skin


  • Photographer
    Jennifer Pattison
  • Prize
    1st Place / Fine Art/Nudes
  • Company/Studios
    Jennifer Pattison
  • Date of Photograph
    2012/13
  • Technical Info
    Hassleblad,80mmlensKodakPortra

These are a selection of portraits from my project In Sight of My Skin. The work is a series of dreamlike landscapes and portraits which strive to capture the brief moments where my subjects become less aware of their naked body. During the slow process of making these portraits, there is a moment in the quiet where they become unaware that they are naked, I capture them as they drift to another place. The accompanying landscapes are an extended portrait depicting those places. Whilst I was taking the pictures I had many thoughts about what the sitters were thinking. I felt when I was taking the pictures that the sitters had moments where they seemed to be elsewhere. They stopped talking and there was silence, even only for a minute. I’ve struggled to describe this with words; I recently listed to a Radio Four book of the week, The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz although he is writing about his experience as a psychoanalyst he describes these moments. He talks about listening not just to words but the gaps in between. I began thinking about extending the portraits and illustrating the silences-the gaps in between with landscapes, images which ponder where the sitters thoughts may have drifted to.

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