This Naked Incident

A deep dive in search of masculinity

  • Book Design
  • Exhibition
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Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers spoke with five peers; all assigned male at birth and all with very different experiences of masculinity and equally different gender expressions. Because what is masculinity?

Where it sometimes seems that we have no more than stereotypes to resort to in our efforts to make this tangible, it turns out there are specific moments, charged by the people around you, and the places where you are, that suddenly allow for room to modify the way you express yourself.

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“How much room is there, in society, to be masculine in different ways than the masculine construct dictates?”

Alexander van der Heide

The book is designed as an exploration in image and text. Through this journey Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers come to the conclusion that if masculinity is anything at all, it is fluid.

Through Phases
The images were shot over a period of three months, in which the makers successively asked their peers to bring an object they associate with masculinity to the shoot, take them along to places where the interviewees feel most at ease, and finally resulting into a portrait that captures the subjects experience of fluidity of their masculinity.

Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident
Hoax Amsterdam This Naked Incident

Concept & Idea
Alexander van der Heide
Sander Coers

Graphic Design
Hoax

Publisher 
Eleonoor Japsam
Jap Sam Books, Prinsenbeek

ISBN 
97894992852502

In Collaboration with 
Mama with support from Willem de Kooning Academy research center

Printer 
NPN Drukkers

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