Sarah Piantadosi Bone

The human body is at once base and beautiful, bestial and divine. It’s a battleground, fiercely fought over and strictly policed.

Photographer Sarah Piantadosi has observed an unmistakable shift in the way young people think about their bodies. Individuals who would once have been othered by restrictive stereotypes are insisting on their right to be seen and celebrated in mainstream visual media – forcing issues of prejudice, visibility and autonomy to the surface of contemporary culture.

This generational shift was the primary inspiration for Bone, a collection of nude photographs which captures a cross-section of this commanding new generation. Over the course of a year and a half, Piantadosi shot more than 50 individuals in their twenties in London and Paris, documenting the intricacies of their own relationships with their bodies, their selfhood and their boundaries.

Bone is introduced with a poem written by Ryan Neal Skelton. Casting for the project was by People File and art direction by Jamie Allan Shaw. Bone is published in a limited edition of 300 hardcover copies. 

30 × 24 cm, self-published, 2023