Through the 90s Gunn was keen to discuss her photography of the male body with students. 'Annette’s expertise in food styling with fish had led to her become interested in photography hence she was studying with me. We decided a fish and men series would be humorous on one level but also create some ironic and thought provoking images around the notion of masculinity. We had a lot of fun making the series. Annette’s husband was the model.’
The main image in the series, Fish, is the hand tinted, toned silver gelatin print and this was reproduced as a postcard for the Photographers Gallery. It was also printed as a poster on number 38 and 73 London buses and as a magazine cover for Dutch magazine, Homologie, to accompany the Exposures exhibition at the Melkweg (Milky Way) in Amsterdam. Another image from this series, a large blue crab strategically placed around a flaccid penis, was Rosie’s first photographic private sale. Gunn says, ‘I was told that a woman bought the image to hang in her first apartment after leaving the family home - a sort of ‘right of passage’ image for her. However a male journalist reviewing the same image in the Melkweg exhibition described the 'violence against men' that was signified by the threat of the sharp claws near the vulnerable body part. He claimed my photography was motivated by ‘revenge’. Maybe that was a small part of it – pay back for what male artists and photographers have done with the female form - but it was about many, many other things too – particularly the power to be gained as a woman being seen to use the camera to look back at men.’