05/06/2026
Jock Sturges: F***y (Steidl, 2014)
centred on another recurring subject photographed at Montalivet. These longitudinal projects distinguish Sturges from many of his contemporaries, positioning his practice closer to that of a chronicler or diarist than to that of a conventional fine-art photographer working in discrete series.
Jock Sturges occupies one of the most contested positions in the history of twentieth-century photography. Technically accomplished, thematically coherent, and perpetually controversial, his decades-long project of documenting naturist families in Northern California and France raises fundamental questions about the body, time, consent, and the ethics of the photographic gaze.
