A place where transgenders and LGBTQ people went where they could be free and not come under attach.
Walter Pfeiffer
Colaborates with subjects to document how the subject wants to be percieved
Adi Nes
Israeli Photographer
Creates staged images of men breaking the ‘manhood’ stereotype
‘Questioning ‘Male Provado’ in the context of war.
Key theorists:
Judith Butler – “Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”
June Singer – “Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.”
‘Shrinking Violet’ (2016) – One of Shannon’s projects
Looking at feminism and her mom’s place in the house.
‘Abort Mission’ (2018) – First university project
Started with an encounter anti abortion protestors
Started thinking about woman’s health and how woman are viewed from society.
Shannon read pretty much the whole bible
Shannon likes to put juxtaposing images next to each other
Forming sequences using colour, wide shots and tight shots
‘By Your Bedside’ (2018) – Personal project
Her mum went into a coma
Shot it on Medium format
‘The Cat and the Mice’ (2018) – University project
Suffragette movement – militants
Documented places that were key during the time
Documented activist alive today
Created a group of activists
‘That’s Not The Way the River Flow’ (2019)
Heavily influenced by Judith Butler
Lots of layers: Photos, videos, sound, poems
Not taking yourself to seriously
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Well done, this is great to see…taking notes and developing conscious thought and ideas whilst engaging with a guest practitioner…keep up the hard work!
Well done, this is great to see…taking notes and developing conscious thought and ideas whilst engaging with a guest practitioner…keep up the hard work!