Please visit the full set on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerbetron/sets/72157624887470726/ I’ve expanded into shooting men as well as women. I feel like pressures to conform to a slender archetype reach beyond women, and for the first time in history, men are dealing with the same body issues and weight stigmas as women. This set of images is designed to show the fat male body in abstract closeness. Emphasizing hair, stretch marks, lines, weight and shadow. Beauty standards affect both men and women, so size positive images should exist for both men and women. Adi-BROS is a working title for this collection, which is a play on the word “adipose” which means the actual fat cells in the body. I wanted to really explore the male figure in a way that invites the viewer to gaze voyeuristically up what by most standards would be abject.
Erin Zerbe is a multimedia artist working in video, photography, performance, and new media. Her work specializes in human interactions and relationships with the body. Currently she is teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Art Foundations and Kinetic Imaging Departments. In her free time, Erin works as a professional plus-size model and make up artist.