In His Room is a series of environmental portraits of men in their bedrooms. It is also a collection of personal writings by these men as well as photographic details of these intimate spaces.
Photographing men in such a personal space as the bedroom required time to get to know each man. Our time together led to expressions of spirituality, uncertainties about the future, mourning for those lost to the past, and the struggles to find joy in a somewhat joyless decade.
Just as their sexuality is disparate, so are their interiors. The colors of masculinity used to express themselves are like a Kinsey Scale paint chip. The amount of occupied space within these bedrooms is also varied -- from minimalist Zen to an accumulation of fifty years of living in one room.
Each man has created a bedroom that defines his current chapter in the beginning of the 21st Century.
Martin Ledford explores fundamental human conditions such as solitude, exploitation and compassion through environmental portraits, still life and landscape photography.
