'For me, portraiture is an honorific form.' Artist Rachel Stern shares what Salome means to her, explores the relationship between fatness and desirability, and tells us what it was like to photograph the women in her own bloodline 🖼
, Stern dialed in to share whatmeans to her, discuss the relationship between fatness and desirability, and tell us what it was like to photograph the women in her own bloodline.ELEANOR VEITCH: Could tell me a little bit about your work up until this point. I’m curious about the projects that precededRACHEL STERN: I live half my life as a very traditional black and white film photographer out in the world.
STERN: So the first picture I made was the self-portrait, and it’s behind text that says, “If thou had seen me, thou would have loved me.” I felt very strongly about putting those words over my body. I think they relate a lot to my identity surrounding queerness, fatness, and the intersection of those two ideas as they relate to personal and social ideas of desire. Salome is saying that to his severed head.
VEITCH: I noticed that in some of the photos the subjects seem to be inviting attention, while some of the other subjects are a bit more restrained. Do you want viewers to perceive some subjects differently than others? Or do the subjects themselves determine how they want to be seen?
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