Vincent Wechselberger’s photo book Ready offers an insider’s portait of queer sex work – one rooted in ritual, trust and storytelling. Its pages move between sensitive portraits of his fellow sex workers, close-ups of their handbags emptied onto bedsheets, and the stillness of their empty workspaces. The book’s foreword poses the question, “Shower, hair, makeup, music, prayer – as sex workers, how do we prepare for the charged moment of sexual encounter?” By documenting these preparatory details, at turns moving and mundane, the Berlin-based photographer aims “to show the humanity behind it all, something that anyone can relate to on some level”.
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