ALEXANDER DRECUN

BODY LANGUAGE

We use our bodies to communicate all the time. We employ gestures to emphasize a point or to add meaning to something we say. And our bodies continue speaking even when we shut our mouths. No matter where we are or what we’re doing, our bodies are saying something about the ideas swirling around in our brains. I did not set out to photograph body language. While reviewing years’ worth of photography I realized that I had been photographing it all along; that, at a very elemental level, I had been responding to the body language of others because I felt I knew the thoughts and emotions that had compelled similar body language from me. I’ll never be able understand the breadth of what is on a subject’s mind but making these images felt like an expression of common bond in the human experience, like saying, “At some level I know what you’re feeling and you’re not alone in feeling it.”