“Soda POP!” Artist Reception | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Los Angeles photographer combines things typically associated with childhood, such as computer games, & places them in adult nighttime settings. The unease is heightened featuring young men marginalized by society, neglected street kids, or male prostitutes.

The photos, which Pullen describes as “fake soda ads”, are reminiscent of subliminally sexual advertisements, with the shape of the soda bottle correlating to the shape of a curvy model sipping from it as a phallic symbol. The photos of these men offer the same impression as one of those iconic ads, but in a context that has been turned on its head; they pose with their prop, not in a safe and clean studio but on a street corner or in the subway.

Presented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery.

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