Médaille d'argent dans la catégorie « Fine Art »

Women have played a critical part in the history of photography and continue to offer a new narrative and insight into the world and the way it can be seen. Cultural perceptions of older women and the devaluation of young women are ubiquitous, often misrepresented and ignored. The Understory II confronts this by celebrating women young and old, and by recognising how gender and nature intersect, and the powerful connection women have with the natural world. The plants are also photographed in the studio but instead of using a digital SLR, I use a large-format monorail, analogue camera. Instead of using conventional, 5x4 manufactured film, I coat my own paper negatives. The unframed portraits are displayed as prints alongside framed photographs of the organic forms. Historically, women have occupied art as symbols and as repositories for the stories and ideas of men. For this series, the women are taken out of their assigned frames and are instead in charge of their own narrative