‘Subscribe Now’ explores life as a college student and sex worker. It is a collaboration with student sex workers to break the stigma surrounding sex work and talk about the balance of being a full time student and sex worker. Intimate portraits give an insight into the part of their identity they usually keep hidden. I photographed in places the students not only created content, but also slept and did most of their school work and online classes. My aim to show that sex workers are people you love and not just a foreign concept of how someone is living their life. Interviews highlight career goals and relationships with friends and family, alongside the negatives and positives of sex work.
Through ‘Subscribe Now’ I have met and interviewed amazing students across the US. I am so grateful to call most of them friends. As I move forward with this work and after, I will continue to advocate for more protections and rights for sex workers.
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