{"id":18486,"date":"2013-06-21T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:31:27","slug":"the-slightly-uncomfortable-portraits-taken-by-photographer-who-asked-74-strangers-if-she-could-touch-their-faces-in-a-bid-to-break-down-social-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=18486","title":{"rendered":"The slightly uncomfortable portraits taken by photographer who asked 74 strangers if she could touch their faces in a bid to break down social barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers don’t have a reputation as being the friendliest people, but that didn\u2019t deter photographer\/artist Joy Mckinney from choosing it as the location for her project to invade people\u2019s personal space.<\/p>\n

In her new photo series \u2018The Guardian\u2019, Mckinney photographed herself going up to 74 total strangers and touching them in the face.<\/p>\n

According to Mckinney her experiment was about \u2018breaking down social norms\u2019 and connecting with people in a \u2018real and meaningful way\u2019.<\/p>\n

She admits she was initially worried about how people would react to her unusual request \u2013 especially given the common perception of New Yorkers as guarded and anti-social.<\/p>\n

Instead\u00a0Mckinney<\/a>\u00a0found that the majority of people she asked were willing to participate, even if they usually wanted to find out more about what she was planning to do to them.<\/p>\n

Mckinney uses\u00a0photography and video\u00a0to explore contemporary social and cultural attitudes towards gender and race.<\/p>\n

According to Mckinney the underlying message of ‘The Guardian’ series is that all people need to be more open to engaging in different experiences.<\/p>\n

‘The more we engage and the more we share with each other the more we can become connected,’ said Mckinney. ‘That was my ultimate goal. What I wanted to do with my photographic work was to explore how we can break through those social boundaries.’<\/p>\n

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