“If whiteness gains currency by being unnoticed, then what does it mean to notice whiteness.” 

In this current socio-political climate that highlights narratives of identity politics discussing queerness, race and diversity, I, as a queer person of colour, am investigating whiteness critically. Aware of the historical ethnographic use of photography as a tool to ‘capture’ particular ‘exotic’ cultures, ‘Heirs’ is a turning of the gaze by utilizing the white male body as a vessel to explore the inherited western experience.

I am interested in forms of visual culture, such as advertising and films, that set precedence for dominant masculinities. This work fashions, races, and queers the white male body pointedly, to simultaneously make a typography of it and reify it’s history with idolization.