Man Enough?
“Ever since he was a boy he had been repeatedly picked on and ridiculed for not being man enough, manly enough, first by his own family, then the students and teachers at school, even perfect strangers; taunts and barbs hurled in sudden fits of rage and contempt, though whence they arose, he never understood; ”
Man Enough? is an ongoing portrait series exploring queer masculinity: what it looks like when it isn't performing for anyone else's gaze.
The images of queer men I encountered growing up were narrow in a way I couldn't name at the time. Loud, muscular, a particular kind of visible. Nothing that felt like me. This project is an attempt to make different, more honest images. Images made in close collaboration with each subject.
The work is slow and accumulative. It doesn't argue for a single version of what a queer man is. It simply tries to look at the way men inhabit their own bodies, on their own terms, outside the scripts they were handed.
