Maddy Baron-Clark

Gilded is a portrait series featuring young people with eczema. Conventionally eczema is de-emphasised to a surface conditon in both medicine and western society, when there are bigger emotional and psychological impacts at play. I aim to empower and assist in reclaiming the medical body through a sympathetic lens by telling the story of what it is like to live with eczema as a someone who has it themselves. Although our skin is not gilded with gold, it is just as precious.