I saw a few of the photos from Erwin Olaf's series The Keyhole at Paris Photo Los Angeles. I love the composition, color palate, background patterns, and body language of the subjects. In person, the images are crisp, arresting and evocative. According to Le Journal de la Photographie:
It is through the keyhole that Dutch artist presents this latest work
on the theme of shame, inviting the viewer to become a voyeur.
The
subjects in Olaf’s ten portraits strike postures of humility and
remorse—perhaps the result of private humiliation suffered on the other
side of the lock. They refer to age-old fantasies, evoking in each of
us the passing of our lives and the inevitable reckoning of one’s own
fragility.
