ELLIE ENGLISH, DOES MONDAY WORK?, 2022

“'Born and raised in South East London, Ellie documents family dynamics, sadomasochism, the everyday, and her life as a sex worker through diaristic photography. Her practice engages with intimacy, sexuality, and relationships using Fujifilm Instax. Recently, she self-published her photo book does monday work? which gives a glimpse of her five-year stint as a full-service sex worker. The book brings together anonymous portraits of her clients along with photographs of the hotel rooms in which they met. The comfort in giving, appreciating, and making pleasure finds its definition in the images Ellie published. The photographer creates a space for contemplation on of sex work and photography through ghostly corridors, cheap lamps and chairs, musky carpets, hotel shampoos and soaps, feather-filled comforters, and soft eroticism.” - Reedition