Ace‘Just like every other teenager I spent a lot of time exploring my sexuality. At around 14 years old, a lot of my friends were coming out as gay, lesbian, and bisexual. This became very confusing for me because none of these labels ever felt right to me.
After discovering Asexuality and doing in depth research into the Asexual spectrum I felt a lot more comfortable with that as a label, but it wasn’t perfect and still isn’t. It made it much more complicated and unclear when I discovered that many members of the LGBTQ+ community don’t believe that Asexuality and Aromanticism belong within the community because “you can still be straight and asexual”. This project explores my own experience with asexuality and portrays my feelings of confusion and uncertainty within myself and my belonging within the LGBTQ+ community. These four self- portraits depict exactly how I feel about labels within the community. Sexuality is a spectrum, and I don’t think I’ll ever find a perfect word to describe myself, but asexual will do for now.’
London 2024
Sexuality of the BodyThere seems to be a lot of division within the LGBTQ+ community as to whether Asexual and Aromatic people should be included within the community. This is because some people think that they don't experience discrimination in the same way as the rest of the community. This project explores the presentation of the body in connection to sexuality through a series of black-and-white self-portraits depicting the photographer existing within the bedroom, semi-nude, in an intimate and non-sexual way.
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Hiraeth
Ella Guru
Home Away From Home
Travel
Pembrokeshire