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The Instagram punks reclaiming the female body from the male gaze – one steamily surreal selfie at\u00a0a time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nadia Lee Cohen and Millicent Hailes met at college at the age of 15 and started taking photographs of each other. For Hailes, it was a way to realise the characters in her head and to guise herself as someone different, whilst for Cohen it was a reaction to the mundanity of everyday life. \u201cNadia Lee and I used to photograph each other in strange outfits, in weird places,\u201d recalls Hailes. \u201cIt progressed from there to what it is now. We\u2019re still wearing\u00a0strange outfits in weird places, just 10 years on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These days their strange outfits range from leopard print triangle bikinis twinned with cowboy hats and logo t-shirts worn with soda-can headwear, to American flag print leotards and straight-up, full-frontal nudity. \u201cI remember us having some sort of epiphany, flicking through someone\u2019s holiday photos that looked as though they were downloaded from Photobucket and saying to each other, \u2018these are so fucking boring\u2019,\u201d recalls Cohen. \u201cAs a response we took photos in any spare time we had; bearing in mind we had no idea what we were doing with a camera. We ended up with some horrendous images that probably rivalled those holiday photos. All that stuff is on a hard drive somewhere that I want buried with me when I die. We\u2019ve got a bit better since then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their work is provocative, energetic and empowering, served with a side of humour, often with a darker undercurrent. Think titillating nudity censored with emojis, fake blood dripping from bare breasts and erotic poses. \u201cMyself\u00a0and Millicent have always been quite weird in each other\u2019s company, spurring each other on to always take things to a darker place,\u201d says Cohen. \u201cThis could be a curse, but I see it as a blessing.\u201d Both artists cite cinema as their main inspiration. \u201cSpecific movies that set the tone\u00a0for the darker stuff I like now \u2013 Pink Flamingos, Kids, Gummo, Scorpio Rising, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart<\/em>, there are too many to list,\u201d says Cohen, who\u2019s also drawn to photographers like William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, Martin Parr and Nan Goldin who \u201ccreate a strong narrative element from what should be a mundane image\u201d. Meanwhile, Hailes loves the work of Larry Clark, Diane Arbus, and Helmut Newton (\u201cfor how he saw women\u201d.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When it comes to Instagram, both Cohen and Hailes have an account to get entirely lost in. Creating a sense of acid-trip alt-reality with their heightened aesthetic and hyper-sexualised imagery, the image-sharing app has become an extension of their work. \u201cIt\u2019s allowed me to use myself as the subject perhaps more regularly than if it didn\u2019t exist,\u201d says Cohen. \u201cA psychic porn star from Vegas summed it up once with, \u2018Nadia Lee you\u2019re a very sexual person but it\u2019s all inside your head\u2019. Life is too short to fade away in a drab outfit with an Instagram full\u00a0of your dog or photographs of what you\u2019ve inhaled that day. I\u2019d much rather make people feel uneasy or offended than make them feel nothing at all or indifferent towards me or my work; at least then they\u2019re feeling something… isn\u2019t that what art is all about?\u201d For Hailes, it helps people understand her work and the thought process behind it. \u201cI feel really strongly\u00a0that I live my work,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s really important to be the woman that I want to photograph too, so I don\u2019t separate myself from my work that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, female nudity is commonly wrongly associated with the word \u201cobjectification\u201d, one of the reasons that Cohen started her series 100 Naked Women. \u201cPost-feminism is associated with women taking control of their own self-image rather than being objectified by men,\u201d says Cohen. \u201cThis is something I strive to do with my images of myself as well as my work, often by injecting a touch of irony and humour to promote non-sexual images that carry a narrative.\u201d Adds Hailes: \u201cI\u2019ve found my work on porn sites or porn tumblrs, they\u2019ve been taken out of their original context and placed into another by somebody else. I guess my work and imagery means something different to different people, but I guess that if my images make me, and the women I\u2019m photographing feel empowered and strong, then they\u2019re doing their job. You can\u2019t dictate how images will be received, you just have to shoot with the correct intentions. It\u2019s always better to get a reaction than no reaction at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photographer<\/strong>: Millicent Hailes<\/p>\n

Words<\/strong>: Brooke McCord<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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