My chosen photographers to study for this unit are:

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun used photography as a means of self-expression, often using elaborate and outlandish costumes and props to create both intriguing and surreal imagery that was especially shocking for their time (WWII era). Cahun’s work often subverts what people saw and still see as gender norms, rejecting them completely to see what it really is that forms a person’s identity.

William Lakin

William Lakin’s work (in this instance) focuses on masculinity and how broad it really is as a term – how it is culturally reproduced into society – and what it means to people.

Clare Rae

Clare Rae’s work uses feminist theory to represent the female body in “an inherently fetishising medium”, developing a very distanced perspective toward gestures and positions the human form takes while in both public and private spaces.