Lady Tarin
Next Girl

  • Italy
  • fr
  • en
  • 29'
Lady Tarin | Next Girl
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Synopsis

Lady Tarin, Next Girl follows photographer Lady Tarin in her work exploring the female body, nudity, and intimacy. Through a series of encounters with young women, Mathilde, Alessia, Claudia, Carlotta, Celine, and others, the film observes how Tarin creates a space of trust where her models can free themselves from imposed poses, erotic stereotypes, and the traditional male gaze. Between apartment shoots, street scenes, nightclubs, cars, and more introspective moments, the documentary builds the portrait of an artist seeking a more natural, personal, and powerful representation of women. For Tarin, photographing nudity is not simply about showing a body; it is about telling an identity. The film thus becomes a reflection on the female gaze, self-acceptance, and the possibility of feeling stronger through images.

What you will find in this film

The female gaze on nudity • A photographer at work • Analogue photography and Polaroid intimacy • Women freed from imposed roles • The body as a space of self-acceptance • A powerful reflection on image, desire and identity

Keywords

Nude & Eroticism The Artist at Work Analogue Photography Portrait & Aesthetics Fashion Photography
What happens when a woman looks at another woman? She recognizes herself.
What I do is not project a role onto them. A woman must not play a role, whether she is naked or dressed. A woman must be herself, and not perform anything else.
I try to remove all possible stereotypes. She must not embody something.
Technically, for nude photography, I shoot on film or Polaroid, because with film there is the skin, the very presence of the body… of the person.
I really like the idea of the one-of-a-kind piece, I also like the physical dimension,the fact that there is materiality, this kind of physicality. It is a body represented on a body.
The acceptance of my body happened when I understood what I wanted to do with my life.

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The authors/artists

Lady Tarin
Lady Tarin
Photographer
Giovanni Troilo
Giovanni Troilo
Film Director

Further exploration

Bibliography

Resources

Lady Tarin – Stanze Private, NFC Edizioni, 2016. (Multilingual) – A direct entry into Tarin’s intimate photographic world and her early work on women, interiors and sensual presence.  

Lady Tarin – Guiltless, NFC Edizioni, 2021. (Italian, English, French) – A later monograph that extends her research on female nudity, complicity and self-representation.  

Lynda Nead – The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality, Routledge, 1992. (English) – A foundational feminist study of the female nude and its cultural boundaries.  

Abigail Solomon-Godeau – Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices, University of Minnesota Press, 1991. (English) – A key feminist critique of photographic history and its social ideologies.  

Naomi Rosenblum – A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, 1994. (English) – A broad historical reference restoring women photographers to the history of the medium.

“The Representation of the Nude: Between Affirmation and Subversion” – AWARE – article. The English version of a strong reference text on feminist approaches to the nude and the politics of looking. 

“The naked body as a canvas for self-expression beyond the male gaze” – Fotografiska Berlin – essay. A contemporary reflection on nude photography from a female-identifying perspective.

“The female body under the female gaze poses a monster problem” – Aeon – essay. A nuanced long-form essay on the difficulty, ambiguity and power of reclaiming the nude female body.

“The Women Photographers Who Consider the Dynamics of Being Seen” – Aperture – essay. A useful text on women photographers and the act of countering patriarchal ways of seeing.

“Photographing Intimacy” – International Center of Photography – essay. A broader resource on the difficulty of photographing intimacy without reducing it to spectacle.