Scrutiny By Storm Thorgerson

The machine 'Scrutiny' was constructed by Thorgerson and his team using no photoshop/computer just photography as Storm Thorgerson considers it more 'real'. This piece explores the mystery of womanhood and man's quest to understand – the battle between the sexes. It pits man/nature against machine/technology with the machine being inescapable – referring to the effects of technology in our everyday lives. 'At first glance it may look like an image that's about threatening a woman – since machinery is often a male preserve, it is a male threat. But it think it is more about man's paranoia, his feat of woman more than his antipathy. i.e. the only way that a man can understand a woman is via an enormous machine – a scientific probe which can scrutinise the inner recesses of the female mind that many men claim to find so elusive.