Laura Hawkins
- T +44 (0) 7891 858 573
- E lr_hawkins@hotmail.com
- W http://www.lhphoto.co.uk
Laura has a strong interest in health and fitness and spends much of her free time training at the gym. This has led her to focus on the perfect, lean, toned and sculpted male physique as the subject matter for many of her photographic projects. She has been influenced by the photographers Andreas Bitesnich and Arno Rafael Minkkenen who have inspired much of her work.
Laura’s visually strong and aesthetically beautiful photographs express the line, shape and form of the male figure, capturing the body’s contours creating powerful and graphically clear images. Her realisation of forms and the importance of light in which to reveal that form allow her to create photographs with abstract pattern, clean lines and strong forms. The body structure is shifted and twisted around to achieve sculptural abstraction with symmetrical like shape. The sensuous photographs blur the borderline of the male body between the aesthetical subject and the object of sexual desire. Some of the photographs are ambiguous and are open to interpretation about the relationship between muscularity and masculinity, and between nature and manliness. They are also suggestive of the objectification and commoditisation of the male body in recent years. There are phallic symbols present in the work representing male potency, power and domination; the traits of masculinity.
