NADA Miami 2024

Clarity Haynes began the Breast Portrait Project in 1998 with her own nude self-portrait. She found the experience transformative and decided to offer this opportunity to other women. Each sitter enters Haynes’ booth to pose, record her thoughts in a book (often handwritten there and then), and consent to having a photograph taken of her nude torso alongside the finished portrait. To date, Haynes has completed over 500 breast portraits. As each breast portrait contributes to the whole and the whole grows in number, the artistic effect intensifies. And changes. A full wall of portraits transforms the individual identities into a collective narrative about the human condition: its diversity, its vulnerability, its challenges to survive.