Anna Sampson’s queer gaze is evolving erotica
The artist discusses her debut photobook Other Intimacies, broadening the erotic imagination and the overlaps between the queer and sex worker communities.
ALL PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF ANNA SAMPSON, FIRST APPEARING IN ‘OTHER INTIMACIES’ (2024) While recent years have seen an explosion in interest in topics like kink, polyamory and sex positivity – thank you Feeld! – widespread censorship still exists across all corners of the internet when it comes to pretty much anything sexual (or should we say, “seggsual”?).
This erotic erasure means that representations of sexuality in the mainstream can still be pretty pale, male and stale – which is where artists like Anna Sampson come in.
Using photography as her primary medium, the artist has spent three years building up a body of work exploring queer, kink and sex worker communities – a catalogue which is now displayed in her first photobook Other Intimacies.
