Every human experience some kind of self-objectification, while women are especially prone to internalise an objectifying gaze due to the societal proliferation of beauty norms. Hence, »Distance« captures how social meanings mediate individuals’ perception of their own body. It displays visually the degree to which people develop a blurred mental image of the physical self; an image that fluctuates at times rapidly between centres of attention, as well as scale (from ultra-close to super-far). Moreover, the photographs challenge the mentioned phenomenon, by explicitly emphasising body positivity and the embracement of the self in the synchronisation of body and first-person.
