PatrickPhotos

A personal photography project

Tag: Art

Nudes: The Art of the Soviet Union

27 July 2019

I’m not sure how I came across Nudes: The Art of the Soviet Union. But what interested me about the book was the curiosity to see if there was a difference between art created in a communist society versus a capitalist system. Can you tell if people are from from behind the iron curtain once…
The Female Gaze

21 July 2019

I saw on an online forum a question asking if there is the female equivalent of the Male Gaze. There is no question when you look around in photography and wider popular culture the phenomenon of the Male Gaze. Scantily clad young women adorn pages of magazines, newspapers and in advertising. Movies are told from…
On Photography

26 October 2018

When I started this project I was pretty naive. I’m not ashamed to say it. I knew that I wanted to work on pictures for me and not for someone else but had no idea about what I wanted to say in the pictures. If I had read Susan Sontag On Photography back in 2013…