7 (More) Artists Exploring Their Own Bodies Through Self-Portraiture
As a follow-up to one of our most popular storyboards of all time, we take a look at artists baring it all through self-portraiture. Izabela Jurcewicz reclaims her body after surviving a rare inter-organ tumor; Sam Gebelle sees a photo of themselves and sees they are beautiful for the first time; and lots more wait to be discovered. “Being disabled, I don’t get to see my body or explore it very often, so photographing helps me appreciate it for what it is." - Robert Andy Coombs.
In her studio, Izabela Jurcewicz set up a slab, covered it with a green medical sheet, and stretched out on top of it. She was reenacting a real …
An ethereal touch, a ghostly presence, a soft whisper of a still life: these are the tender elements present within the work of Ziqian Liu. She …
“After taking this image, I knew I was onto something that had never been seen before,” Robert Andy Coombs says, looking back on Nude on Grass, a …
Andi Schreiber, a Westchester, New York, photographer of middle age, lives in a world of bright, clean color, spotless mirrors, and men’s suits …
When she looks back on the pictures she made in her early twenties, Busan, South Korea-born photographer Ahn Sun Mi can’t help but feel a sharp pang …
