London based Fashion and fine art photographer Steph Wilson new series “Emoji” explores the use of emojis as a censor for female nipples, genitals and bums in art.
Steph tells Dazed magazine that her series is inspired by:
The series was an idea that had been bubbling for a while. I remember seeing a stunning shot on Instagram taken by my good friend Eleanor Hadwick of her boyfriend, nude, on a cliff edge. His arse crack was censored with, what Elle coined, a “sparklefart” (the sparkle emoji). It made me laugh but also made me incredibly frustrated that such a striking, artistic image had been made into a farce. I wanted to play with that as a theme, and, for once, use emojis as censorship to my artistic advantage.
