About Savage Skin

I have always been drawn towards beauty that is strange or unique, that which falls far outside of the narrow parameters of ‘acceptability’, designated by a society which, on the one hand, professes to encourage individuality, whilst on the other, enforces regulation and conformity. As such, my interest in ‘bodies of difference’, (whether born or self made), is both deep rooted and long standing. Within my photographic practice, ‘normality’ is of interest only as a means to measure degrees of difference in a culture that continues, on many levels, to regard that which is extreme, as deviant.

Since taking up photography in 1989, my work has been selectively exhibited, and extensively published, both in the UK and abroad.

In 2003, I graduated from the University Of Westminster, with a First Class Honours Degree in Photography & Multimedia. Stylistically, my work vacillates between the genres of art and documentary photography, exploring issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, body modification and contemporary fetishism.

I would like to thank all of the people who have collaborated with me in the production of this body of work. Without their enthusiasm, energy and support, the creation of these images would never have been possible.

I am indebted to you all.

Thank you, Ashley.

Savageskin.co.uk Official website of the photographer Ashley.
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