MAGGIE WEST – KISS
2021-02-08KISS features a diverse group of couples across the spectrum of gender identity and sexuality, made up of models, artists, musicians, and sex workers from across the United States, Europe, and Australia. The photographs capture moments from a range of relationships: Some of the subjects have been together for years, while others are total strangers.
Underneath West’s signature spectrums of colored light, each encounter takes on the electric charge inherent to the act of kissing, with each model’s genuine and spontaneous humanity heightened by the contrived, intensely saturated lighting.
West began capturing these intimate encounters in 2015, and that same year released her first photo book, KISS, which documented the kisses of 25 pairs of Los Angeles residents. The online exhibition includes photographs from this first series as well as from recent shoots in Los Angeles, Sydney, Budapest, Lviv, and Prague taken by West in preparation for the second edition of her book.
Opposite – KISS 1, 2015
Exhibition runs through to April 16th, 2021
Maccarone (online viewing room)
300 South Mission Road
CA 90033 Los Angeles
USA
