"Saints & Sinners"

"Saints & Sinners" is a photographic exploration that examines the dynamic relationship between personal sexual identity and pious, institutionalized spaces. The series captures a striking visual dialogue between personal agency, security, and femininity and religious traditional architecture, using the ornate doorway of a historic church as both backdrop and metaphor.

The ornate church entrance, with its religious symbolism, represents institutional permanence and traditional perspectives juxtaposition to the subject's confident, sensual poses and contemporary styling, which asserts individual identity, sexual power, and bodily autonomy. Thereby creating a visual tension that invites contemplation about who belongs in sacred spaces and who is the righteous authority -- individuals or institutions?