Smoking Men
Exhibition, Publication (2017 - ongoing)
The Tetley, Leeds, and Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
Publication: Notes for a Performance—Final Draft, Wild Pansy Press, The University of Leeds
Image Credit: Jonathan Purcell
Smoking Men is an ongoing collaborative project working with the photographer Jonathan Purcell. The photographic series uses smoke and smoking as a material trope of the past as a means to explore historic and contemporary representations of masculinity.
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