The humanity lies in the relationship between these body parts.
In each photo, you see penis and testicles, belly, hands and thighs. One word for penis is manhood, so it seemed a perfect starting point to talk about being a man.”ĭodsworth has now photographed 100 men. “I had this sense that men were in a ‘man box’ as much as I’d been in a ‘woman box’, and I wanted to get to know them better and hear their stories. And she has had a similar experience with Manhood. “You see lots of pictures of breasts everywhere and you can’t help feeling you don’t measure up.” When she talked to women, she discovered many of them could tell their life story through them.
Like many of us, she says, she is uneasy with her own body. Breasts have been commodified and aestheticised, so we’re used to seeing them in everyday life the same cannot be said of penises, which remain largely unseen and very much taboo.ĭodsworth’s earlier project was personal. That was delicate, Dodsworth says, but not as delicate as this. In 2014’s Bare Reality, also previewed in Guardian Weekend, the photographer interviewed women about their relationship with their breasts. This is not Dodsworth’s first foray into body parts. There was something interesting about going through a divorce, then meeting 100 men in an intimate way