Biography

The portrait is outdoor daylight, shot from slightly below on a balcony. She stands topless with one hand in her hair and the other hooked into the waistband of low-rise distressed denim, the button open. Behind her a white railing, then blue water, then a city shoreline under a clear sky. The sun is hard and frontal, so the highlights fall on her chest and shoulders and the shadows sit under the chin and under the breasts. Both nipples are pierced, the navel is pierced, and a red flower sits on the left ribs.

What the frame and the listing agree on is a performer who works in plain sight. The tattoos on the right forearm and the left ribs, the jewellery, the unbuttoned jeans, the direct look into the lens: a set of decisions about how to be looked at, made by someone who has done it often. The big-bust shelf of the industry is crowded and largely anonymous, and the names that survive it tend to carry a recognisable attitude. This page is independent, appears in six languages, and does not speak for her.