Dazed Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Dazed MagazineInstagram)「Over the past five years, Iranian-American photographer @melodymelamedfoto has been working on her most personal project yet. It’s a series called The Book of Skin: Shangri-la, in which she places nude portraits of queer individuals in sequence with photographs of the natural world. ⁠ ⁠ Folds of skin and transition scars are mirrored by grains of wood; the creases of a neck by sea foam; the pores of a back by rain-dappled sand. At turns majestic and tender, this dynamic sequence of bodies with organic textures and forms grounds the queer experience in nature, and creates what the New York-based photographer describes as “a Rolodex of queer euphoria”. ⁠ ⁠ “The project began with a focus on ‘gender euphoria’,” Melamed tells Dazed, describing the feeling of joy that trans and other genderqueer people can experience when their gender expression aligns with their gender identity. ⁠ ⁠ “I’d been working with trans bodies and trans identities since my college days more than a decade ago, exploring the emotionality behind transitioning and stepping into one’s true self. But the concept expanded over time to become more all-encompassing, about euphoria and identity for all queer bodies,” she continues.⁠ ⁠ “I wanted to create a visual space where the subject and the viewer could feel the power of this phrase ‘euphoria’ through portraiture.” ⁠ ⁠ See more through the link in our bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📷 @melodymelamedfoto⁠ ✍️ @madeleine.pollard」5月8日 0時09分