Refractions for a Lover

These photographs explore the charged space between visibility and longing, using prisms to fracture and refract the male body into shifting planes of light, color, and gesture. The distortions resist a singular, fixed gaze; instead, the body becomes fluid, multiplied, and elusive, much like desire itself.

I’m in conversation with a lineage of queer and queer-adjacent surrealist photographers who used the camera to trouble norms of gender, beauty, and erotic looking: the sculptural dreamworlds of George Platt Lynes, the symbolic tableaux of Herbert List, the staged psychological narratives of Duane Michals, and the uncanny self-fashioning of Claude Cahun. Like them, I treat the photograph not as a document, but as a site of projection and fantasy.