The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.
Charlotte CottonI think the twenty-first-century modality is exhibitionism. Exhibitionism is our contemporary strategy for maintaining our boundaries, which is to be boundary-less - to put everything out there before somebody comes and violates or penetrates something that we're keeping sacred.
Charlotte CottonIn an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.
Charlotte CottonPhotography's relationship with pornography is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.
Charlotte Cotton