MEN CAPTURED THROUGH FEMALE LENS


Boys (don’t) cry


WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN


When a man loves a woman is a song of the American singer Percy Sledge, but not only. It’s even the last photographic book of the artist Molly Matalon. What’s happen when men are seen by a female perspective? How changed the way they are represented? The photographer answered these questions in his When a man loves a woman, published in April 2020. They became fragile, tender and full of feeling for their big loves. The man she shots are not the classic hyper-masculine characterization of a man, which is a really large, muscular guy, but they look vulnerable and soft. As they really are.



THE METHOD


In an interview for W Magazine, Molly Matalon explained how she chose the guys in her photographic book.
“Some of the people in the book are people I meet on Tinder, but the range of men is so varied that it’s more about an attraction to men or a romantic look at men than it is about any one person.”
The same method for choosing the models is used by an other artist, Huang Zejian. He picks his models on Tinder, he meet them and photographed them, in their sexuality. Models are no more professionists but everyday people.



PROCESS OF LIBERATION


In photography, women become free thank to other female photographers. They are no more seen only under the man’s perspective. And nowadays many women are shooting male bodies, reinterpreting them and making them free too. An example can be found in the photographer Ceicilie Harris. From 2019 she is doing a publication called, Boys by girls, in which a generation of young men are captured elusively by female photographers. It’s not a magazine that invokes the male body, rather the soul. Harris explained her research as following: “the overall arc is to explore what’s like growing up as a young male today”.

When a man loves a woman is an important book that reveal what men are made of and what women are looking for in their parters. It’s a visual story that document that yes, even boys cry.

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