Rion Sabean was born and raised in Florida... currently finishing up
his BFA in photography at the University of South Florida. ...the most
important thing to him is ‘to get out of Florida’.
‘My work tends to be either an overt social commentary, or
rooted in deeply personal subjects relating directly to myself. With
the Men-ups! series, it was definitely the former that was more so
embraced and the issue of gender roles was my target. It has always
interested me how the sexes have been pitted against one another and
taught to believe that gender roles/identities and biologically assigned
sexes were one in the same, especially since that couldn’t be further
from the truth. How can color have a sex? How can a pose be acceptable
(and even provocative) for one, and not the other? From these ideas, and
many, many more, was born the series, Man-Up, one in which I hope breeds
thought and insight on just how ridiculous and restrictive the socially
created gender roles are from their very inception’.
Rion Sabean was born and raised in Florida... currently finishing up
his BFA in photography at the University of South Florida. ...the most
important thing to him is ‘to get out of Florida’. 