James Dodd

Words by Ian Joicey

James Dodd’s work revolves around humanity and obsession. He documents subcultures and social groupings that allow the people involved to exclude, temporarily, the necessary triviality of what they would describe as normal life, whilst highlighting the apparent yet benevolent mundanity of the worlds they build around themselves. He seeks the essential humanity in the subject, even when they try so wilfully to become something else entirely, like the pale and earnest LARPers, dressed in leather armour, rough-woven cloaks and wire frame glasses, or the dancers saddled beneath layers of lace and makeup, entranced by their routine, but exposed in the fluorescent light and clear, unpretentious photography.

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