Cammie Toloui

Artist Statement

I've recently been exploring sex and nudity using a thermal imaging camera, so the World naked Bike Ride in Portland was an important event to document.

Thermal cameras strip away the visual white noise of normal life to expose our core human heat and it’s always fascinating to see what appears and what doesn’t.

Artist Bio

Cammie Toloui was born and raised in California. She holds a degree in photojournalism from San Francisco State University, where she also taught photography.

Her work as a documentary photographer has taken her to Russia, inside ambulances, strip clubs and other public/private worlds. She delights in exploring and exposing taboos, finding humor in unexpected juxtapositions and discovering a subject’s unguarded truth.

Her work has been shown internationally, including in London’s Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her book of the Lusty Lady series $5 for 3 Minutes was published by Void in 2021.

World Naked Bike Ride, 2025