I wanted to play with gender and identity within my images. I used two male models to portray my message. I dressed the two models in a mixture of my own clothing and some I had purchased for this purpose. I wanted to create a juxtaposition with the clothing choices, a muscular guy with tattoos wearing a long white dress is not what you would normally see.
I chose to present my images in black and white as they seemed more tasteful in a way. Before the bright colours and tones took away meaning from the images. I also chose to remove the faces of my models from the images as I wanted the focus to be on the outfits and the reasons for them rather than it focusing on particular men in dresses.
My favorite image is the delicate image where my two male models are back to back with their arms lightly touching. I really wanted to focus on the misconception that men have to be tough and have to act a certain way and dress in manly clothing.
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