Contradictions;
The harsh truth of cigarette smoking is blurred with our own fantasies. In equal is our preconceived vision of a woman’s sexual identity.
Rarely seen are the photos of this addiction’s aftermath. Rarely given is acknowledgment to a woman in exercise of her own.
A cigarette in process of seduction, assimilation, mastery
Identity of the individual is a single and unique placement of the self within choice, perspective and action.

 
CIGARETTE GIRLS
2015
                         
                             
   
 
     
 
 

 

Three women tied together by a predetermined relation. The visual dynamics of each individual within this group is what I wanted to capture in a photo. Stepping back from my initial vision and becoming opportunistic with camera. I began to see Angelique, Anna and Frederique, as they expressed a multitude of sometimes conflicting personas. It was when I abandoned my idea that it was realized.