Zed Nelson – Love Me
Zed Nelson – Love Me
Image from the series ‘Love Me’, Courtesy of Zed Nelson.
Image from the series ‘Love Me’, Courtesy of Zed Nelson.
Image from the series ‘Love Me’, Courtesy of Zed Nelson.
Image from the series ‘Love Me’, Courtesy of Zed Nelson.
12 March – 24 April 2010
Love Me is a collection of images documenting how far people will go for the quest for physical perfection. Negotiating the boundaries of art and documentary photography, this series reflects a world we have created where enormous social, psychological and economic rewards and penalties are attached to the way we look.
Zed Nelson’s subjects are school girls; body builders; Iranian’s queuing for nose jobs; New Yorkers having foot surgery to fit into Jimmy Choo shoes; and South American women undergoing surgery to bring themselves eerily close to Barbie dolls.
Zed Nelson has produced a powerful body of work that forces each and every one of us to question our own place in a culture that compels us to constantly judge, and be judged, by our own appearance
