I created a photobook to showcase my work focused on women and the female body with a feminism aesthetic approach. A visual journey through lights, shadows, lines, objects and femininity to evoke the feminism, the delicacy of the female body and not merely to be seen likes an object. A book dedicated from women to the female gaze, which I decided to call it “Framing feminism”. “Where the photography shaped feminism and feminism shaped photography”.
During decades in a commodity culture the role of the woman as a model is often seen like an object, an approach to be watched for a male public in the most of the case. Today often asserted that we are in post-feminist age, suggesting that we live in a world of equality, yet women we continue to earn less than men, continue to suffer domestic violence and to bombarded with message that encourage us to perceive ourselves as an objects to be looked at.
“Framing feminism”, comes at a moment when the power and influence women hold on the world stage is irrefutable, and the very idea of gender is central to conversations about equality across the country, and around the globe. The first idea arrives when I produced the grapefruit picture, evoking the feminism and with a connotation on the female masturbation that is a taboo to many people. I quickly started to have more ideas following this context producing images at the photography studio. Others of them were produced outside such as the picture of the singer called “kerela” which evokes the call to all women in order to makes noise and be heard, taken into account. Also, the pictures in black and white which gives to the book a particular sense of the most rebel girls without modesty to show themselves as they are. I am also wanted to show and produce pictures through models I did not know and whose could work to produce images under this context. In this stage, I simply introduced myself to some girls that I saw in the university fields. Letting them know about my project and inviting them to participate in it. This was perhaps the most difficult stage because I did not know the models and had to direct the whole process. This helped me to break the barriers to contact the people I wanted to photograph and to increase my communication skills and the direction of the photographic shot at the studio. In some of the pictures I decided to shot close up on my subject in order to show the beauty of the female faces and body´s line. On the other hand, to puts the viewer into an intimate position with the person seen. Through other of the images such where appear a woman tied with a rope I tried to evoke the most submissive femininity in a connotative sense leaded with a kind of misogynist and a touch of Eroticism. To create the content of this book I have based on some of the aesthetic approach from Cindy Sherman, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, André Barre and Irving Penn. The book is presented in an A5 format.
Additionally, it seems like there are so many kinds of feminism now and different ideas about what it means to be feminist. This book “framing feminism” maybe looks like radical or politically incorrect but that is what I interested as a photographer or an artist, to explore those taboo areas where you can push the boundary.
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