Celebrated photographer Marianna Rothen explores questions of female identity throughout her work. In her latest series, Mail Order, she poses alongside mannequins of men, flipping the power dynamic between women and men.
In this series, the female protagonist, played by Rothen herself, creates her “perfect” man and makes him dress, pose and perform his manhood in the ways she demands.
“A lot of my inspiration is also from images we’ve already seen before and I alter and re-portray the subjects by changing the context,” she told Lomography.
Rothen works both digitally and with film, explaining that “each image is captured with a digital camera and then photographed again with Polaroid film which is then scanned. This way of working became a necessity when Polaroid stopped producing and the film became expensive. It was important to keep Polaroid in the equation because I didn’t want to lose the photographic quality.”
Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.
