'UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE- HOMAGE TO BARBARA NITKE' (2024)

I wanted to create a homage to Barbara Nitke and her photography. I was awestruck by her investment in showing marginalized sex in a loving and humanizing light, her fight against the legal system to end stigmas in favor of normalizing that which is considered taboo. Sex is something which informs a lot of our social interactions as humans, it influences our laws and our ideas of purity. As a society we hold ideas on who can and can't have sex , what is and isn't perverted. Yet despite this underlying discourse in society over what is widely seen as a private act, there isn't much open talk on sex. Stigmas, taboos, purity cultures … even the law in some cases prevents open discussions and education on sex for many young people. Barbara Nitke’s photography aims to open up conversations about this.