A selection of work by Paris-born, London-raised and New York-based photographer Alexandra Dewez. Using images as a way to connect and convey specific emotions and urges, Dewez’s observational expressions revolve around two distinct themes, as she explains:

“The first is the expressiveness of both animals and natural environments, their rawness and lack of self-censorship, their power, obvious in life and maintained in death. The second is the human skin, in all its variants, all its contortions, in detail and as a whole body. Whether confronted accidentally with the image or extracting it from my brain through staging, the resulting photograph allows me to communicate in the most precise and honest way I know how. With the hope of being understood but the declaration itself being the essence.”

See more images below. Each week our members share their work with us and we highlight the best of these submissions as Editors’ Picks. If you have work to share, you can learn more about becoming a member.