Details of photographer Joel-Peter Vitkin.

Joel-Peter witkin was a photographer in the mid-1990s. The style shown in his works is not the scenery, culture, architecture or commodity that everyone imagined in their eyes, minds and concepts. The main direction of his shooting is portrait, but the protagonist in his lens is not a living human being. In his works, the protagonist is a corpse, a person with a dark side of society, a dwarf, a hermaphrodite and a SM-style pattern.

I have a vague impression of Joel's life, except that he 16 years old started taking photos of corpses, and his brother died in a car accident. He stole his brother's body from the funeral home at midnight. He believes that people can show another kind of vitality after death, so he started a series of photography.

In the first impression of ordinary people, his works are absolutely absurd and scary. When I first met him, it was no exception, but after the first shock, I began to be curious about his shooting arrangement, feel fresh about the role he chose, and be interested in what he wanted to express. To tell the truth, this is also a gap that opens the door of my brother BDSM. But each of his works has a simulation of historical reaction, from the interpretation of Greek mythology, the persecution of colored people by white people to the discrimination against special people in the dark corners of modern society.

You can find that many of Joel's pictures are expressed in Greek mythology. His Venus, such a mutilated corpse, stands before your eyes, and his Cupid is a centaur. For Joel, this is another aesthetic expression, just like in BDSM, the posture of being tied or bound is also the most beautiful, and it is another aesthetic expression that people can present when they lose their freedom.

The side and bottom of an Indian chief are set off by various fruits; Or a picture of a dog with a head; The decapitated middle-aged man sat in a chair; A white body with a mask and a broken arm; It can be found that he has a bisexual personality, which seems to imply that he is treated unfairly in society, and he is eager to jump out of the narrow circle of his life and let the world know his experience.

If you carefully taste Joel's works, you can also find that each one is full of sexual hints. Black-and-white photography shows strange scenes and is a clear hint that flashes in your mind.

The interpretation of images varies from person to person, and the creator's ideas and viewers' impressions are rarely the same.

Photos can be seen on the following websites. From the first time I saw Joel's works at that time to now, I have always appreciated them from an artistic point of view.

I am not good at curiosity. I think the meaning behind the image will be greater than the meaning directly presented. Let's find out for ourselves.