In Perfect Empathy, the series of still images of female nudes illustrated here, large metallic areas isolate young women’s candid stares and blooming flesh. These gold and silver swathes are impervious, eternal, and otherworldly, and here the contrast between Bradley’s uniform market strokes and the model’s soft bodies makes the women seem even more vulnerable. In addition, Bradley’s use of a faux metal marker to evoke an icon’s precious background is another collision between the ersatz and the spiritual. Eyemazing was delighted to talk to Bradley at his studio in Dumbo, New York about the photographs now on exhibit in the Netherlands.