Photographer Marianna Rothen shows a special interest in female identity. In her series Mail Order, she flips the power dynamic between women and men, making the men the passive objects.
No man in this series is real, they are all mannequins. Posing alongside the eerie looking mannequins, Rothen makes her men dress, pose and perform their manhood in the ways she demands, making for a funny if a bit scary effect.
“A lot of my inspiration is also from images we’ve already seen before and I alter and re-portray the subjects by changing the context,” she told Lomography.
“I think photographs are reactions to things that have already been seen and experienced,” she shared in an interview with FotoRoom. “My childhood, what I thought life was about then, my experiences as a model and the essences of these great films, the characters that live within them.”
Take a look at some of her work.
