The Innocence Project [2012 – ] presents the schoolgirl as an authoritative figure who understands her value. While popular culture casts her as naive, submissive, and fetishised, and accessing her intimacy becomes an enigmatic fantasy. Aware of these perversions, she learns how to heighten her desirability, turning her fascination and the schoolgirl uniform into a symbol of sacred power. Reversing her position to one of control subverts the allure of her everyday innocence. This blurs the line between predator and prey, exposing how the spectator, voyeur, and object of desire shape broader societal norms surrounding the sexualisation of women.

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Liana Yang’s The Innocence Project is presented at the 10th Singapore International Photography Festival as part of Shifting Images: Photography from Singapore 2000–2025, under States of Becoming.