Richard Kern at Home

Richard Kern has been photographing young women in small apartments since before most of his subjects were born, and the work has always occupied a specific uncomfortable space between voyeurism and collaboration. He came up through the Cinema of Transgression in downtown New York—no-budget films, body horror, deliberate provocation—and shifted gradually toward still photography that kept the transgressive energy but traded chaos for intimacy. A title like Home Entertainment is exactly the kind of Kern project that rewards a slow afternoon: domestic spaces, available light, a subject who either stares you down or refuses to acknowledge you entirely. The gaze in his work is never innocent. That’s the whole point, and it’s why it still holds.