{"id":378535,"date":"2026-04-02T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:45:11","slug":"what-if-everyone-started-making-out-andrea-martis-horny-photo-series-tackles-gen-zs-lack-of-intimacy-head-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378535\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat if everyone started making out?\u201d Andrea Marti\u2019s horny photo series tackles Gen Z\u2019s lack of intimacy head on"},"content":{"rendered":"

After discovering an essay by Raquel S. Benedict titled Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny, surrounding characters in film that may be presented in sexually suggestive ways but are not shown having or even talking about sex, Andrea started to think that there was even more ground for her photographic exploration of intimacy today, so she adopted Raquel\u2019s essay title to frame her images: \u201cI think it is an incredible title,\u201d she shares, \u201cone that was highly debated by my tutors, which only made me love it more.\u201d<\/p>\n

A big visual inspiration behind the series for Andrea was Tom Wood\u2019s classic photographs of young people clubbing<\/a>. When she first started researching the photographer, Andrea was confronted with the sad realisation that if she was to recreate Wood\u2019s images today, the kinds of scenes he captured would probably have to be staged, as younger generations are increasingly missing out on in-person interactions, living chronically online. \u201cMy mum used to tell me how, back in her day, people would go to clubs and fall in love, and at the end of the night, the DJ would play slow music\u201d Andrea says, \u201cI don\u2019t think that happens anymore.\u201d Harnessing this nostalgia for a time she never experienced, the photographer wanted the final series to reimagine this current rise in physical isolation and declining intimacy by staging an alternative, utopic reality in which closeness and desire are visible in young people today.<\/p>\n

All of this making out was, according to Andrea, a bit of a challenge to orchestrate. \u201cI\u2019d never done something that required so much pre-production and planning,\u201d she says. \u201cFinding couples was definitely the hardest part. It was incredibly difficult to align schedules, get people to commit and communicate my vision without coming across like a perv.\u201d From putting up posters around uni, to messaging people on Instagram and even trying to cast some actors herself, finding participants was a logistical nightmare. \u201cIt didn\u2019t help that most of my friends are single as well,\u201d she says. After exhausting all her options Andrea decided to reach out to people that work in casting for help and she came to collaborate with Melissa Ozcolack on a final line up of couples willing to snog for the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After discovering an essay by Raquel S. Benedict titled Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny, surrounding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-378535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}