CHARLIE, ALPHA, MIKE, PAPA

  • Kyle Adams
‘CHARLIE ALPHA MIKE PAPA’ encourages its viewers to investigate, thoroughly, personalities before making judgments. Using various photographic techniques, including stills from moving image, the project is an approach to understanding the depths of identification in male sexuality surround the notion of ‘camp’. Treating the surface of the skin as a canvas for identity to be projected onto, an outer gender, as well as capturing intimate moments, the project draws on personal experience and self-expression to portray camp being merely a minor aspect of one’s personhood. Understanding the subtlety of this project is key to understanding the idea that camp is not an identity and rather just a label used to categorise a particular aspect of one’s identity. ‘CHARLIE ALPHA MIKE PAPA’ aims to tackle and break down the sometimes over-bearing qualities one may imagine when considering a ‘camp’ man.