Ben Judd’s I Remember (Glamour) was shot in a studio in London for amateur photographers. The model is posing for photographs for men who are asking her to sit or stand in different positions. Judd added a voice-over to give the impression that he was predicting the next pose that the model will take, for example “I remember when you touched your hair”, or “I remember when you leaned back on the bed and laughed.” The words come before the action, so that there is a mood somewhere between an intimate memory and a remote series of instructions.

Judd wanted the work to have a feeling of being simultaneously close and distant; a feeling similar to being a tourist and attempting to familiarise oneself with something through the act of photographing or videoing it. Within the unglamorous world of the glamour photography studio, looking at someone through a lens appears to legitimise the act of looking and produce an illusion of intimacy, at the same time as removing the photographer from the subject.