Vera Comploj is a young italian photographer living in NYC. She’s still shooting in film and loves the idea of not having abstract files in her hands just created by numbers, but negatives. Very sensitive a photographer, Vera presents a new project called W-12 that was shot during a drag queen show in Washington.
The backstage is the place between reality and artificiality, between stage and life. With this new project Vera Comploj explores a very delicate treatment of the skin. The skin is transformed, modified and hidden behind make up and outfit. The natural skin is vanishing progressively and every picture mixes human body and artificial body, reveals the transformation. We always can feel delicacy and even if the artificiality will recover whole bodies, the glance stays turns towards the human being.
The point of view participates to this softness because we are very close to these bodies and the skin.
It was a challenge for Vera to go out and take pictures of these “women”, usually a landscape photographer, she shot W-12 in a tinny place. This is why the project is very private and intimate.
I spend 4 hours with them and I tried to shoot them from my small point of view, which was in a corner, because there was no space for me. I love being surrounded by people and get to know all the different and small “worlds” of everyone.
Her next project will be about Coney Island in different times of the year to see how people and structures react with each other at different times.
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