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PJ Boman has developed a body of remarkable work exploring the idea of a female muse. The gritty, slightly toned b&w images are at once sensuous and emotionally charged, creating an air of expectancy that's palpable. - Photo-Eye





Occasionally reminiscent of Lillian Bassmans sensuous dreamworld, the visual monologue also reflects the documentation by photographers working in the early years of the last century - most notably by Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, whose Parisian study Ladies of the Evening focused on streetwalkers operating in the French capital in the 1920s and by the portraits of E.J. Bellocq, a relatively unknown photographer who documented the prostitutes living and working in Storyville around the same time. Just as each photographer celebrated the era with a sense of decorum, Boman points his lens at his models without compromising their dignity. - Sarah Brown, British Journal of Photography