Him

Laura Stevens:

Over the course of one year I invited over fifty men to my home to be photographed naked.Most were strangers, and it would be the first time we met. Stripping my bed to a white sheet,my most intimate space became a site for the man to be at his most intimate. An area with defined boundaries to move within, into which I would look, and he would be looked at.

Being a woman, at the age of forty, contemplating the naked male body feels curiously problematic. With...