For photographer Milly Cope, taking pictures is an act of affection in addition to a type of revelation. “I believe we spend an excessive amount of time hiding ourselves,” explains the 23-year-old, reflecting on why she is drawn to the naked body, “not only through clothing but in addition by concealing our innermost thoughts.” Approaching photography as a way of honouring vulnerability – each physical and emotional – her perception of nakedness as “facing yourself from the within out” is the tenet of the imagery in her upcoming book, Body Ceremony.Attempting to explore the feeling of corporeal detachment so lots of us acquire over time as a consequence of learnt shame, the book explores what it means to be naked...
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