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Kern does not ask his subjects to pose for him, nor does he direct them.  He doesn’t even contact or cast them.  Rather, the subjects contact him, and pose for him in any way they are comfortable.  They sometimes choose to be portrayed in the nude and they have full control of the way their bodies are photographed. Therefore, the work is a collaboration between the model and the photographer, as they both construct the image.   This process plays out an interesting power dynamic, as the photographer is an older man and the subject is a young woman.  Yet, by being seemingly opposed, the photographs are shaped by the male gaze, but simultaneously express the subjects’ agency over their sexuality and their bodies.  However, how far is the performance of these young women a true expression of their new-found sexuality? Or is that performance rather shaped by the patriarchy and influenced by the endless stream of pop culture on what it is to be a woman?  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It captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. Working with the sculptor Sarah Sitkin, Collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities.  This new body of work features Collins first experiments with self-portraiture.   ‘I’ve seen my camera take on many truths.  And the truths that shocked me the most to see, were my own.  I see them in every image I have taken.  Seldom am I the subject of my images but I often make my way into the matter of them’.   Acknowledging this, these photographs are set in a world of ‘constructed’ domestic interiors contrasted with ‘real’ exterior locations and Collins own family and friends.   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