Some Want Quietly
Drew Pettifer
Essay by Futoshi Miyagi and Designed by Lachlan Siu
M.33
Thirty-four intimate nude and portrait style images have been judiciously selected from 800 frames taken during a residency in Tokyo, 2014, where the artist invited straight and queer young male subjects into his studio. Pettifer’s gaze and the expressions of the models suggest a revised concept of ‘masculinity’ in contemporary Japan which is supplemented by Miyagi’s essay which refers to the T.V. show ‘Otoko wa tsurai yo’ (1969-1995), and its message of a happiness that exists outside social paradigms. The title was produced as an edition of 100 and was a finalist in the recent Australian Photobook of the Year award and the National Gallery of Victoria’s, Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design.
