The Armory

The balance and conflict of work and life have been ongoing subjects of exploration in my work. My most recent workspace series, The Armory, documents the ever-changing sets of the pornography company Kink.com to investigate a sort of life within the structure of work. Private spaces are constructed for a public gaze, and work is veiled under the guise of personal life.

Devoid of people, the spaces allude to an activity, but leave the viewer to imagine the scene. Pornography, driven by demand, reflects an amalgamation of our desires. Yet its prevalence also changes real-world sexual habits creating a feedback loop of the fabricated becomes the real while the real becomes fabricated.

About the photographer

Elizabeth Moran (b. 1984) lives and works in San Francisco. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York and her MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has exhibited internationally including at SOMArts in San Francisco, Fotofest in Houston, RAC Gallery in New York, and tete in Berlin. Moran was awarded a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in 2012 and a Tierney Fellowship in 2013 and was named one of the winners of Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward (US) for 2013.