shannon O’Donnel – notes

inspirations

  • claude cahun- radical, rebellious, Jewish lesbian women
  • duane michals- simple
  • casa susanna- place where transgender people go to freely express themselves, amateur photographers, snapshots
  • walter pfeiffer- poetic images
  • adi nes- 100% staged, delves into masculinity, sexuality and war, jewish israli

research

  • films
  • news
  • other photographers
  • surveys
  • interviews
  • books
  • theorists
  • exhibitions
  • talks
  • local politics

theorists

  • judith butler- gender constructs
  • june singer- androgyny, ‘not being gendered but yourself’

how do you form your stories?

  • juxtaposing images
  • colours
  • wants viewers to interpret story in any way that they want
  • different types of images (layouts)

her work?

  • shrinking violet- feminism, gender roles
  • abort mission- abortion, church and christianity, view of womens bodies, photographing different people
  • by your bedside- personal experiences, shot on medium form, therapeutic process, sound and film and photography
  • susans sleep- audio scapes, lots of sound, ambient sounds, interviews, shot on lots of different things
  • the cat and the mice- based on suffragettes in wales, based from archives, revisited places of significance, photographed contemporary activists
  • thats not the way the river flows- centered on gender constructs, film, mixed with poetry, music and ambient sounds

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