If You're Lonely

If You're Lonely... is a series of backlit portraits of men I met through online communities in Berlin and New York. Drawn to the anonymity of these users, I sought to explore the mystery of their physicality through my artwork. Participants came to my studio, removed their shirt and posed. No information was exchanged, and their identity remained a mystery. Stylistically, I sought to create what looks like a homogenous body of work-- large black images with very subtle detail hung in success. However, as viewers spend time in front of each individual photograph, do the participant's unique qualities emerge out of the blackness. Jesse Finley Reed