« This is not the person who is employed by your company.
This is a different Julian Baker.
It is not his fault. Don’t blame that one. Look away.
I should point out that if you aren’t comfortable with seeing
naked humans you may want to avoid going any further. » Julian Baker.
“Once upon a time I took photos for record sleeves. Now concentrating on portraits and images with an outsider view, I shoot only on medium-format film, scavenging for expired stock, cross-processing, sometimes using retro medium format or lofi cameras like the Holga. I want my images to evoke an element of ‘otherness’, a commentator called one ‘creepy, erotic and comical simultaneously’, which is a good a mission statement as any. Recent work has starting exploring ideas of how our skin defines us in others eyes, and creating images that look back at the viewer upsetting their preconceptions of ‘art nudes’. (I don’t shot art nudes I take portraits of naked people).
Most of my images are pre-thought set pieces, evoking potential stories brought to life by collaboration with interesting people, never just a ‘model’. The goal is something more other worldly, a little twisted perhaps, a sense of misplacement. Both staged and real… a contradiction.”
