![]() ![]() Never one to tread the line carefully, he’s been making work that has angered, repulsed and pissed off people since the late ’70s. “I hesitate to say ‘school portraits’, because then it would be like ‘oh, they’re underage’, but they’re not underage – a lot of those women are actually in their thirties.” “They were based on school portraits, where everybody looks goofy or happy or whatever.”īut, being ever-so careful, he backtracks… “I was trying to make them look happy and optimistic,” Kern says. But also the subjects having total agency over their bodies. The topless photos explore the power dynamic between the photographer (an old man) and the subject (a young woman), as well as the male gaze that comes with it. Featuring 59 portraits of women, including photographer Petra Collins and actress Dasha Nekrasova, the photo series explores the dichotomy between girl and woman, nude and clothed, playful and deadly fucking serious. At 66-years-old, the filmmaker turned photographer has just released his seventh instalment of Baron. Richard Kern knows he’s pissing people off.
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