GUP #049 - INTIMACY

 

 

As living creatures, each of us has a different threshold for experiencing intimacy, the pressure point where we start to feel a connection with such clarity and intensity that the sudden exposure of ourselves almost burns. Like sensitivity to the sun, for some of us, even a grazing of the skin is enough.

But let’s get real about this – to achieve intimacy, scratching the surface isn’t enough. Imagery needs to deliver a virus, something that invades. Something that the viewer feels in their blood and bones, something that attacks defence systems and demands adjustment and enlightenment. It’s not about getting closer, it’s about getting deeper.

 

 

Photographers included in this issue:
Julia Steinigeweg, Edith Diederiks, Øistein Sæthren Dahle, Laia Abril, Monika Macdonald, Takeshi Suga, Pierre Liebaert, Edgar Martins, Hayley Austin, Camille Renée Devid, Leon Borensztein, Edith Diederiks, Danny Griffionen.

 

May 2016
180 pages

225 x 166 mm