Metropolitan

Taking as it's formal and conceptual inspiration, John Singer Sargent's The Wyndham Sisters, this series of photographs harkens back to the kind of society portraiture that inspired the cinematic world inhabited by the characters in George Cukor's The Women and the films of Douglas Sirk, both of which were heavily coded with queer undertones. By raising this sentimentality to the surface it explores the stories and experiences that were always hidden but can now, as Nina Simone sang, know what it means to be free.