Je fais ce que je fais

Je fais ce que je fais is a participatory photographic project with sex workers, exploring how images change when made through trust, shared presence, and co-authorship rather than external observation and representation.

Je fais ce que je fais is a long-term participatory photographic research project developed in collaboration with sex workers in Belgium and beyond. The work emerges from sustained encounters in which image-making becomes a shared process rather than an external act of observation.

The project investigates how photographic representation shifts when access is based on relationship rather than distance. Within this shared space, authorship is redistributed: the camera does not function as a neutral recording device, but as part of an ongoing negotiation between presence, trust, and visibility.

Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the work unfolds as a fragmented visual field composed of portraits, interiors, gestures, and partial views. Mirrors, cropped bodies, and domestic objects recur throughout the series, functioning as structural devices that interrupt stable readings of the image.

These interruptions question what it means to "see" someone within photography. Visibility is never complete, and intimacy is never fully resolved. Instead, meaning emerges in the tension between what is revealed and what remains withheld.

Je fais ce que je fais is not a representation of sex work, but an inquiry into the conditions under which images of others are produced, shared, and controlled.