We speak to the photographer and filmmaker about Part One: The Mountain, the new exhibition inspired by the bizarre, traumatic, and isolating experience of the last two years
“It’s about a longing for human connection,” says gallerist Daniel Cooney of Scarlet Muse, an exhibition spanning 150 years of sex work as told in photographs. The history of prostitution is, he suggests, deeply enmeshed with that of photography; seekers of pleasure, of love, and of inspiration have turned time and again to doorsteps of the bordellos.