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By: Damien Worst
Date: 10th Aug 05
Medium: Photography
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it
What:
Lyndal Walker Stay Young
Where:
Centre for Contemporary Photography,
404 George St Fitzroy
When:
Until 9 September
Lyndal Walker's Stay Young is one of the current shows in the still freshly renovated CCP. It sees the Melbourne-scenester photographer continue her exploration into male youth. The series explores issues of beauty, attraction and voyeurism, with photographs that abound in innuendo.
Her portraits are of the boys you see lurking around the galleries, cafés and clubs of the city. Here they are presented in daylight, stripped of the threads or people that define them. They are vulnerable, exposed, and terribly aware of themselves. In the all-too familiar setting of their respective share houses, the twenty-something males sit exposed, with pallid skin, non-descript musculature and great haircuts. Girls want them, guys want to be them.