My Tinder Boys: an artist photographs her dates in the kitchen
A London-based artist explores male eroticism and the awkwardness men feel in front of the camera.
My Tinder Boys: an artist photographs her dates in the kitchen
Getting you ready for Friday!
Yushi Li is a Chinese artist based in London. In her work she explores male eroticism: the shyness and awkwardness men feel when they look into the camera. As the artist herself puts it, her work shows men as erotic objects in the light of social media.
For her project My Tinder Boys, she photographs men from her Tinder dates (getting you ready for Friday, we did warn you). "It's hard not to notice how cautiously men pose in these pictures. Men aren't sure how to be sexy on camera."
It's no accident that she photographs the men in the kitchen, a "stereotypically female" territory. Even more awkwardness, even more questions about gender and about what we're used to, even more exploration of intimacy and eroticism in photographs of men.
Photos by the artist.
I photograph naked men because I like men.
I want to create visual pleasures not for men, but for women like me.
