Olympia Moments, 2008

摘要

For a page where we're usually spoiled for choice, when photographer Julie Cook presented a number of her images to us, we found our options somewhat limited as most weren't felt to be publishable in the pages of our profession's esteemed organ. That could have something to do with the subject matter - the world of erotic dance clubs in London and Las Vegas - elucidated in her retrospective at the University of Hertfordshire's UH Gallery: 'Sightlines: Public and Private (Lives)', a collaboration with architect/writer partner Paul Davies. Together they investi- gate the role that architectural space plays in the bigger sexual construct of gender, power relations and fantasy.