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"Say Something About the Sea" is a new photography book by Asaf Einy which explores various conceptions of masculinity in the Middle East. Drawing equally from fashion photography and documentary, his queer gaze shows how different bodies of color – and kinds of manhood - perform in a continuum along which identity, ethnicity, physicality, and sexuality interrelate. The book is divided into three chapters. Each examines the eros-driven relationship between the photographer and the photographed. In the first chapter, "Bruises", Einy's subjects and scenes merge into a series that mixes staged and documentary portraiture. The second chapter, "Thicket", activates the idea of the working brief using online platforms such as Fiverr for the creation of images. The third chapter, "Be Water", makes room for Einy's ongoing dialogue with his subjects, in which the original roles of subject/object are abandoned in favor of friendship and collegiality. The book opens with excerpts from a video work by Einy exploring the tension between the stranger and the familiar as a constant negotiation.

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