Niki Stevens
My work as a photographer has been always been in line with my work as a psychotherapist. It explores the most ‘uncomfortable’ themes of urban isolation, absence, and mental health. The way I capture a moment in time is always in relation with the intersubjectivity of the people, their environments, the history of the place they live in and the way they are interacting with each other. Queer Hedonism form me is an invitation to how we play with each other, ourselves and our environment, how we connect with our pleasure and how much comfortable we feel to break the boundaries, on what has been perceived in the past as private or taboo, by be visible and honour our basic rights to pleasure, instead of apologising for it or asking reassurance for just existing and expressing ourselves from The Other.
