The Company of Men

Alexandre Haefeli – The Company of Men

Responding to a desire to observe, photography has always been a revealer of fantasy. The company of men explores the multiple facets of the representation of the eroticism and the nudity of the male, often only superficially present and highly codified. Evolving in a fantasy of innocence and consumption of purity, the recurring figure fetish of the male body becomes a source of fleshly sensations and is exposed to the projections and looks of its observer, lover or voyeur. Between romanticism and sexuality, suggestion and reveleation, an invitation is launched: an invitation to speculate, to imagine, to desire.

Diploma project (2015) by Alexandre Haefeli

Responding to a desire to observe, photography has always been a revealer of fantasy. The company of men explores the multiple facets of the representation of the eroticism and the nudity of the male, often only superficially present and highly codified.

Evolving in a fantasy of innocence and consumption of purity, the recurring figure fetish of the male body becomes a source of fleshly sensations and is exposed to the projections and looks of its observer, lover or voyeur. Between romanticism and sexuality, suggestion and reveleation, an invitation is launched: an invitation to speculate, to imagine, to desire.

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