Nancy Honey makes photograph's that asks questions what it is to be a woman today, photograph's that explore the influencesthat have come up through childhood and express fears that project into the future. "Some constructions of feminism have evolved their own rules about appearance that can be nearly as oppressive as the old stereotypes" Nancy Honey, 1990
My final year project at De Montfort university (BA Hons Photography & Video). My work explores issues of female representation concerned with age and perceptions of age within the context of emotional fears women experience throughout their lives. Working closely with women and girls from three to forty five years of age my photography explores the differing context age places them within and discovers how often these women and girls are trying to escape their age defined world.
Friday, 1 October 2010
Roberta Ridolfi for Vice Magazine took the above images, in a series called ‘Freewheelin’. The model has been captured being both playful and sexual in her youth. The series consists of the girl in landscape environments and at times is dressed in a swimsuit and looking seductive and appearing older than her age.
Inspirations - Sally Mann
Sally Mann has influenced me, her photographs of her own children in ‘Immediate Family’ have been described as controversial and she’s been accused of manipulating her young children. Mann’s black and white images of her children are beautiful yet there is a certain level of discomfort viewing some of them. The expressions in the children’s eyes can be intense but often show them free and even naked, they do implicate a certain voyeurism and can make the viewer feel like an intruder.
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