Photo-documentary 'Comfort Zone', 2013

 

 

An early body of work in my practice, “Comfort Zone” was my first use of photography as a method to probe fragile social systems.

 

It documents the erosion of privacy and how we consume vulnerability as a spectacle.

Unstaged and photographed from above, sunbathers—unaware of the camera—are quietly commodified by point of view: towels, gaps of shade, and the etiquette of not-looking organize the scene.

What appears intimate is infrastructural…