“Return to Sender” is an ongoing body of work that I began in 2010, in which I ask friends, strangers, lovers and ex-lovers to kiss me. I don’t kiss them back. I remain neutral, an object of desire receiving their kiss.
My character in these images mirrors old Hollywood stereotypes of Asian and gay men. Until relatively recently we were portrayed as oddly desexualised, passive.
But in my actions as the photographer/director — in scouting the locations, adjusting the lighting, setting up the camera and composing the frame — I undermine my character’s supposed passivity.
And because I use a slow shutter speed to capture these intimate moments, the kissers themselves have time to decide how to act and how they want to be represented in the photograph. They too are playing a role. This adds another level of complexity to the idea of photographer and subject, director and actor, protagonist and supporting character, self-portrait and performance.
Recently, I’ve expanded this work by employing actors, restaging kissing scenes from cinema and cropping out the kiss, leaving the gesture to be implied.
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