Tim Banks

Human Bodies

Human Bodies is a series of full body portraits combined with images of human cells.

In order to remove the normal mechanisms we use to identify individuals, the subjects are nude and facing away from the camera.

By stripping away these usual means of identification (clothing and the face) the portraits propose new ways to identify the human body.

The cell layers become a different way to interpret how we see ourselves as human beings and as living organisms.

The cells both hide and reveal new aspects of the bodies shown in the photographs, and distort the conventional photographic surface of the images.

To summarise the project combines the de-sexualised, non-portrait with an abstract scientific vision of the body in an intentionally beautiful artefact that portrays the almost divine transient and ethereal beauty contained in the human body.