‘On Politics, Photography, and the Fashioned Body’ in Foam #53 Adorned: the Fashionable Issue

Politics is not just inscribed on the body or expressed clearly in an image. It also bubbles up from the body’s depths; it is performed, embodied and made palpable across a range of photographic genres and fast-moving media platforms. It’s here, at the interface between the body’s surface and its depths, that fashion photography does its most important work.