Logan Riehl
My primary body of work is an ongoing project documenting leading West End Performers in their dressing rooms. I approach this project as an archive, with the accumulation of over two hundred portraits of performers over the past five years. The dressing room images document the construction of femininity and within them, the nuances in shifting aesthetics of gender are where my interests lie. The images become most interesting to me when the performer photographed begins to blur the line between female and female impersonation. Whether that be the exaggeration of feminine qualities in overt makeup and costuming bordering on transvestitism, or subtleties in posing whereby a potentially delicately placed hand reads not as uncharacteristically female but characteristically drag.
Marianne Bjørnmyr • Joachim Fleinert • Nathalie Joffre • Federica Landi • Francesca Marcaccio • Logan Riehl • Bianca Salvo • Ang Song-Nian • Anaí Tirado Miranda • Natalie Tkachuk • Sonja Trabandt •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art
London College of Communication
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
University of Wales, Newport
MA/MFA Documentary Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography