Portraits In a Chinese Studio

Recreated from 4 October to 17 December 2023 at London’s Centre for British Photography, booked participants will sit for photographic portraits. Portraits from two previous incarnations of the studio will surround the studio. An exhibition of portraits from the projects’ recreation in Southampton earlier this year, opens at The John Hansard Gallery, Southampton this September.

Through this project I am making an oblique comment on Imperialist visions of the ‘exotic’ Chinese and by reversing roles, I have become the Imperialist photographer documenting my exotic subjects.

Adults In Wonderland

Since the early 1980s, my photographic journey through the world of sexuality, gender identity and sado-masochistic sub-culture has earned me the reputation as a photographer of perverse tastes.

Ad/dressing Death

A series of portraits of people posing in a constructed wooden coffin, wearing what they wish to wear on their death. And holding what they wish to take with them.

Picturing The Chinese

My book documenting photographs taken by Westerners in China during the latter 19th Century.