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Every morning we begin the day by putting the clothes on, and every evening we close it off by taking them off. A marker of a routinely life of a modern man, and one of the very few we perform almost entirely unobserved.

In this series, Shishkin photographs individuals and couples in that narrow interval: the seconds between being covered and uncovered, between private and presentable. His subjects are caught mid-gesture, held in the ordinary choreography that precedes the day and follows it.

To be present in undressing as an art of intimacy distinct from desire, what is revealed doesn't question the eyes laid on the figures but asks who is permitted in the room of vulnerability.

Eugene Shishkin is an artist from Kazakhstan based in Russia. A graduate of London College of Fashion, he taught at the British Higher School of Design and the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. Most of Shishkin's projects were shot on medium format 120 film. He contributes to Office magazine, Numero Russia, Harper's Bazaar Russia, Dazed Digital, I-D Digital, Face, Calvert Journal, Elle Russia, Elle Kazakhstan, Esquire Russia, Vogue Russia, among others.

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