a shower is a vulnerable place; you strip to the bare naked, you wash away anything unwanted lingering on your skin or in your mind, you forget the world for a minute and exist solely underneath the cascading water and thick, soapy air. it is where you are you, without limitations. sometimes you sing, sometimes you practice conversations, sometimes you imagine someone else in there with you, sometimes you simply close your eyes and breathe.

i wanted to take that away and see what happened, what it looked like. i asked my friend, meaghan, to be the subject. she’s a simple girl in the photos; fully clothed, with slightly smudged makeup, plainly sitting in the bathtub. the setting is still raw, the subject still naked, but not explicitly. i took away the physical privacy, using the camera’s flash and having the curtains drawn away so that she’s fully revealed in her soaked t-shirt and shorts. but i tried to keep the intimacy of the moment, the vulnerability of the girl. yes, she’s wearing clothes, but her face, her body language is enough of a prying truth.

it was an experiment. a cool new photography project that i wanted to bring to life. just to try it out and see what came of it.