This collection entitled “Beach Privacy” pays homage to the transient beauty and the passaignely atmosphere of a public beach and its people; an environment where respect for people’s privacy needs to be a driving principle to ensure people feel safe and content.
To protect the beaches users’ space, I have incorporated aspects of abstraction and emancipation of sight when taking their portraits. Through an out of focus methodology, the main subject in each photograph is represented just by its silhouette and form, only emphasizing its relation to its environment rather than its physical portraiture, thus preserving its enigma and much needed intimacy. This, in turn, suggests a kind of dreamy state where one coexists and overcomes initial inherent feelings of people being alienated by living together in public.
In my collection I have forged an important adage: we can cohabit and enjoy our surroundings if we respect our collective privacy.