Schlomer Haus Gallery Debuts New Solo Exhibition: SKINTIGHT by Photographer Lanee Bird

Press release by Schlomer Haus Gallery, 3 January 2023 – San Francisco, CA, USA

TIGHT SKIRT II 2020. 20 1/4″ x 13 1/2″. Photo by Lanee Bird (above)
RUBBER RUFFLES, 2020. 20 1/4″ x 13 1/2″. Photo by Lanee Bird (below)

SKINTIGHT by Photographer Lanee Bird

SKINTIGHT by Photographer Lanee Bird
Opening reception is Friday, January 20th, 5pm to 9pm.
SKINTIGHT runs through Saturday, March 18th at
Schlomer Haus Gallery, 2128 Market St. San Franciso, CA, USA
Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat 12-6pm, and by appointment;

Schlomer Haus Gallery is excited to debut SKINTIGHT, a new solo show by Indigenous Queer photographer Lanee Bird. SKINTIGHT is the first solo exhibition of Bird’s fetish work spanning between 2019 and 2022. Drawing influence from the likes of Helmut Newton and Robert Mapplethorpe in a nod to 80s/ 90s aesthetics, Lanee breaks away from the male dominated tradition of fetish photography to divert the gaze into queer femme worship.

A self-proclaimed dyke and pervert, Lanee reveals the intersections of fine art, fashion and fetishism. Her work magnifies the eroticism of fetish materials through light, posture and distortion, and she uses her camera to distort aesthetics into the erotic. Latex, leather, fishnets and nylons are restrictive materials that objectify the body throughout her photographs. The process of creating her work becomes fetishistic by nature through the voyeurism of the camera and the meticulous study of her subjects as fetish objects. Models contort to create a pointed focus on the curves of a body, the spike of a high heel, or to simply revel in the hyper femininity of fetish wear as a second skin.

Many of her subjects are sex workers, dominatrixes and kink models. While SKINTIGHT is an exploration of Bird’s personal obsessions of fetishism, this exhibition of photographs also serves as a celebration of her friends and peers within the BDSM community.

EXPOSED GARTERS, 2022. 36″ X 24″. Photo by Lanee Bird

Lanee Bird

Lanee Bird is an indigenous queer photographer, colorist and video editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Through her photography she reveals the intersections of fine art, fashion and fetishism. A self proclaimed voyeur and pervert, she uses her camera to distort aesthetics into the erotic. She creates imagery influenced from an amalgamation of 80s and 90s underground subculture, music and art history references. Breaking from the male dominated tradition of fetish photography, she diverts the gaze into queer femme worship.