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Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole strives to create truthful pictures of the body but chooses not to use the camera for her project Honest portrait. Instead, she applies photographic liquids to her own body and presses herself onto the black-and-white photo paper. Thighs, back, breasts, hands and feet appear on the surface, forming a kind of life-size copy of her body. She has also experimented with capturing her breath, which spreads like particles across the image. The nude study is conducted as a performance – witnessed by an audience, who can recount its making. The photographic image is not fixated but is aged by atmosphere and light, and the colours change constantly.
