Katy Grannan: Sugar Camp Road

Through portraits made with amateur models on public lands, Grannan probes the overlapping and clashing motivations of subjects, photographers, and viewers—each playing a different role in the complex drama of looking and being seen.

Color photograph of a woman in a bikini lying on her back in a shallow rocky creek in a forest
Color photograph of a young man in a bathing suit posed with his hand on his hip on the rocky shore of a misty lake
Color photograph of a woman in a long white dress standing on a fallen tree trunk on the shore of a still lake
Color photograph of two boys wearing only shorts and sneakers standing in a sunny grove of trees
Color photograph of a woman in an orange net body suit and high heels seated in the grass by a gravel road
Color photograph of a nude man reclining against a tree next to a stagnant pond
Color photograph of a woman in a white bodysuit reclining on a grassy hillside next to the corner of a chainlink fence
Color photograph of a shirtless girl kneeling in a stagnant pool in a grassy clearing
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