Elina Brotherus: It’s not me, it’s a photograph

Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus tells the story behind some of the most important photos in her career, in which she uses her own naked body as a material. In this video Elina Brotherus (b. 1972) talks about photographs from her latest book “Artist and her Model“, one of TIME magazine’s favorite photobooks from 2012. “I want to see“ Brotherus says, explaining how her work is a kind of game of hide and seek, showing and not showing. She explains how she does not like smiles in photographs,
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