'Untitled' [2024], from the series, 'Outer Sanctum' © Charlie J. Harmon
The lives we lead and the thoughts we seek, what drives us to look outwards, to gaze into the endeavour and weep?
Charlie J. Harmon
Photography 2024
A passionate & charismatic fashion, portraiture, still life, fine art photographer and writer specialising in themes of identity, LGBTQIA+ rights, sexuality and photographic art history.
Associating himself within a taboo dystopian subculture in opposition to a mainstream aesthetic, his work is identified within a surrealist contemporary climate of visual and written imagery.
Curation and cultivation of exhibitions holds a strong professional outlook for Charlie as a way into the creative industries' public frontier.
© Charlie J. Harmon
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'If I were to talk to you [...]' [2024] © Charlie J. Harmon
A piece of Poetry to help document my journey within the 'Outer Sanctum' Photography investigation.
'What Shiver' [2024], excerpt from the series 'Outer Sanctum' [2023-2024] © C. J. Harmon
In exploring the work within the collection 'Outer Sanctum', this poems acknowledges the development of the project and what is still to be uncovered.
'Succumbing' [2023], from the series 'Outer Sanctum' [2023-24] © Charlie J. Harmon
This image, from the series 'Outer Sanctum' places itself in a hostile and sterile environment that absolves the subject of courage. Yet, a certain degree of curiosity and display of "rising up" could be interpreted.
'In the Weeping [..]' [2024] © Charlie J. Harmon
'In the Weeping of wide eyes[...]' sets an ethos in motion for the brutality of the project on the mental health of the subject, but also the photographer as the performer of photographic portraits. 'Outer Sanctum' is born.