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TSP's September event explores photographic representations of masculinity by men. The point of departure is the second volume of Age of Man in photographer Tine Bek’s trilogy The Photographic Earth Sagas.

The Trilogy is a conceptional hybrid, transgressing conversations about identity and universality, existentialism and particularism. Volume #1, Et Dieu Crea la Femme, which explored women photographing women, was released in June this year shortly after Alice Gordon’s exhibition A Glass Expanse at SIX Foot Gallery. The idea to look at masculinity and how men represent it was born in conjunction with the discussions around the paradigms for female practitioners and the roles that gender performs in the making of work that this context created. In Age Of Man, Bek experiments with looking at masculinity as a result of looking at femininity to explore a restructured way of articulating gendered identities and the expectations they give rise to.

The questions around looking at or disregarding structure, and the obsession to understand, piece together and manifest one's truth of the nurture/nature polemic created a natural progression to the idea of a still untitled third volume about humanity, it's influence on a global paradigm change it no longer controls, and the irreversible changes it experiences.

Danish Photographer Tine Bek is based in Glasgow and is currently undertaking an MLitt at Glasgow School of Art's Fine Art Photography program. Her work is widely exhibited and she has taken part in a number of international residency programs.