Surreal Photos of Empty Porn Sets After Sex

By Alison Nastasi

Feb. 20, 2016

It’s a photo of a hospital room like any other, with serene blue walls and a screen for privacy — except there’s a vibrator on the bedside table. English photographer Jo Broughton, who we first discovered on Ignant, didn’t stage the image. She was a cleaner at a porn studio — a job she took during her time at London’s Royal College of Art studying photography.

The candy-colored sets with remnants of the sex play that happened moments earlier are surreal, theatrical scenes. “As a cleaner I saw the sets in the cold light of day and picking up and cleaning the mess was a bit like being in a crime scene […] In the end, though, I was learning my craft, trying to understand light and how to photograph really well,” Broughton writes on her website. See more fantasies colliding with reality in our gallery.