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“I think a hodgepodge is a good way to describe my brain…,” states photographer AdeY in an interview with the Phoblographer. When you look at AdeY’s photographs, you see so many different things. I see a ton of nude bodies out in public. But I also see some internet memes such as planking. Additionally, there’s a sprinkle of conceptual and surrealist art in there. All of this simply makes sense as AdeY is a former dancer — and the randomness of the flow is inherently translated into these images.
AdeY makes these images as a protest against how the nude body is often used in commercial photography. “The images draw from concepts and ideas that I feel are consistent within the world that I’m creating in my head,” he tells us. “I use stick people drawings as the impetus for my shoots and lean heavily on improvisation tasks that I have used throughout my career as a dancer and choreographer.” From there, AdeY makes his images into the randomness that we don’t see anywhere else. And for that, his work deserves a praise that champions how different it is from all the others on social media simply pandering to the attention economy.
