New York-based photographer Joy Mckinney breaks social norms in her new photo series ‘The Guardian’, where she photographs herself touching strangers on the face.
Mckinney has touched the faces of 74 strangers in New York City in order to connect with them in a “real and meaningful way” and break social barriers.
She said, “I am able to see via the photograph what I believed about strangers was in fact false, and that often times people are accepting and willing to share… The photographic work serves as a triumph and personal achievement to my ability to let go of my judgments and fears in order to share with another human being in both space and time.”
[via PetaPixel]