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Zed Nelson: Love Me

Friday 12 March - Saturday 24 April 2010
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 1&2

Love Me is a collection of images documenting how far people will go for the quest for physical perfection. Negotiating the boundaries of art and documentary photography, this series reflects a world we have created where enormous social, psychological and economic rewards and penalties are attached to the way we look.

Zed Nelson’s subjects are school girls; body builders; Iranian’s queuing for nose jobs; New Yorkers having foot surgery to fit into Jimmy Choo shoes; and South American women undergoing surgery to bring themselves eerily close to Barbie dolls.

Zed Nelson has produced a powerful body of work that forces each and every one of us to question our own place in a culture that compels us to constantly judge, and be judged, by our own appearance.

IMAGE © Zed Nelson Ox and Angela, Plastic Surgeon and wife, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IMAGE © Zed Nelson Katie age 9, Winner, Universal Royalty Texas State Pageant, Texas, USA
IMAGE © Zed Nelson Rhinoplasty ‘nose job’ operation, Tehran, Iran