touch | the photographer and the wedding party

Funny how different and diverse the responses are with different subjects. This is human nature, is it?

In his photo series touch, Gavin Evans explores the boundaries between subjects. He instructs them to take his hand and place it in the frame of the photograph and by doing so explores the cultural and psychological limits of connectedness. Some take his hand and keep him at a distance while others are prepared to take him into their bodies, literally. The viewer is invited to reflect on the limits of physical contact between strangers, both in its cultural and gendered context, and to explore their own thresh-hold of acceptable touching.

See more of Evans collection here.