Photographer Bex Day Creates Honest Portraits About Difference
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- Bex Day
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- Steph Wade
The work of English photographer Bex Day is expansive, alternative, and raw. In her brief but accomplished career, the Berlin and London-based photographer shoots a diverse range of body types and looks; championing the aspects of normality that complete us as humans.
Given the heavy editing and curation that is expected of the image industry, Day’s body of work is an exercise in authenticity. Shooting primarily on analog film, Day has a strict no retouching policy, preferring to challenge social norms regarding beauty standards. Her hyper-detailed images display gender diversity, sexual fluidity, and freedom of choice—the photographer prefers to cast her subjects not by their appearance, but by their uniqueness, personality, or the emotional connection she experiences with them. Day’s nuanced work is refreshing in its ability to show what is different because, in everyday life, that is where the real beauty lies. Her biography explains just this point: that her images are “Anthropological with a twist of the surreal”, and that they have “the ability to tell a complete story within one frame”.
All images © Bex Day
