EMILY GUITAR
Emily Guitar is a Toronto-based artist whose work examines mental health, feminism, and sex work. Drawing from her lived experience as a full-service sex worker alongside academic research, Guitar uses photography as a tool for critical analysis and documentation. Her practice challenges dominant narratives and invites viewers to reconsider their assumptions about marginalized communities, foregrounding nuance, agency, and complexity while creating space for dialogue, visibility, and social reflection.
Erin, 2024, Photograph
At the heart of this project, Emily Guitar aims to challenge prevailing narratives and prompt critical conversations about sex work. Through documentary-style images shot inside the homes of the subjects, the work aims to make the audience question their understanding of sex work and ignite discussions around proper protection and support for these workers. The intimacy of the subject's home provides context for the person being observed, enabling a layered, complex narrative that showcases them and their personhood beyond their occupation. This image is one from many in the series. Erin (the model documented) was one of the 15 workers in this project who were willing to share their stories, allowing for a collection of perspectives from different workers to create a conjoined narrative that sex work is work, and sex workers are much more than just that.
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All works in this exhibition are available to purchase. To find out more, please email: loveforsale.exhibit@gmail.com