5 Dollars for 3 Minutes

Taken in the 90’s, while she was working in a strip club in San Francisco to pay for her university tuition, Cammie Toloui’s black-and-white series turns around the male gaze and traditional male-female relationships in an hyper-sexual environment devoted to female nudity.
Published by Void, the book 5 Dollars for 3 Minutes unfolds a series shot mostly through the frame of a window, which separated Toloui (or Sasha, from her stage name) from her customers and behind which she performed and stripped. Quickly, the photographer asked her customers if she could take photographs of them. To her surprise, most of them accepted, hiding their faces or not, hilarious, proud, shy and generally showcasing a form of fragility. The result is a series that is as formally extreme as it is interesting in the way it questions gender relations.