Nicolas Boulet
ADATWA: do you virtually date many guys? GREG: yeah! of course ADATWA: How many? 5, 10, 20? GREG: don’t know... say 15 ADATWA so that means much money, no? GREG ... I told you... I have business ADATWA: all right GREG: if you want to see me, it’s 2 dollars one minute, ok I have no time you want take picture of me, don’t give a fuck cam is public
She is from Colombia, has two kids, is in the business since two years. She gets about 2500 dollars per month; before she worked as a saleswoman but could not pay for her two sons’ education alone; their father, she tells me, was killed in a settling of scores. she doesn’t really like what she does, the job is not easy, sometimes, guys behind the screen insults her but she doesn’t know if they are men or women, behind the screen, you can be who want to be
JENNY: I arrived in the business three years ago...
I hope to stop...
perhaps... when I have enough money...
go next to the beach... rent a pretty house... and just have a regular job...
BRENT : you are u? Starring at me??
ADATWA: I told you
BRENT: starring
at me?
Angel: hello baby!
are u there????
hello baby???
are u there???
hello baby???
COX_XX: I don't kow who you are
you are kind of maniac
why you want to take
pictures of me
You cannot!
Métaphotography_III (2012-2021)
Sex performers. This is how the men and women who sell their bodies and sex cams on the Web are presented to viewers who purchase their service online. While the network is public, the moment of performance is "private", visible only to the viewers.
However, there are all those virtual moments in front of them, where those who exchange their bodies (amateurs or professionals) let themselves be seen, in their intimacy behind the screen. I was interested in just such moments. Moments when the surfer scrutinizes and contemplates, without the knowledge of the sex workers. Moments of pause, of boredom at times, of letting go, where before the performance, the screen lets the other reflect his or her own image. As for the photograph, perhaps it's part of a reflection on the relationship between screen and shop window, documentary photography and capturing the flow of digital images, photography and "digital pictorialism".