Entry Title: " Bachelor Portraits"
Name: Justyna Badach, United States
Category: Non-Professional, Portrait


Entry Description: For the past 5 years I have been collaborating on a series of portraits with bachelors. These men tend to exist on the margins of culture and are often considered invisible by society. I usually meet the men for the first time when I arrive at their home to collaborate on a picture. The images we construct together depict the safety of places where they withdraw from the world to think, meditate and act out their fantasies. I am interested in the way that these personal spaces serve as both portrait and the junction between masculine and feminine, the man and myself.

Justyna Badach was born in the Soviet Union and spent her childhood in Poland. She received a BFA in Photography and Art Education at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Internationally. These include, The Corcoran Gallery Washington D.C., Gallery 339 Philadelphia, Emory University, Atlanta, Griffin Museum, Winchester and Lee Ka Sing Gallery, Toronto. Badach has been the recipient of numerous grants including the PA Council for the Arts, Leeway Foundation, Independence Foundation and a finalist for the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.