Through the use of photography, and self-portraiture, I feminise my own figure to mimic conventions drawn from fashion photography and techno-sexual imagery. My work addresses problems of the feminised body, queer theory and transgender representations in contemporary imagery.

What is apparent in contemporary western media is a cultural shift from the female form being evocative of nature, to it being restricted and domesticated by technology, and it’s through this representation that we find recurring issues of immobility, subservience, sexual manipulation and voyeurism.

My own figure is the subject of my representations, addressing the ambivalence of my current gendered body and the significance of self-censorship and visibility in relation to trans bodies. This work oscillates between an introspective reflection on my own physicality and an outward statement challenging heteronormative dogma evident in technosexualised imagery.

James Barth – March 2016