Dazed Magazineのインスタグラム(dazed) - 5月8日 00時09分
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.”
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