“Each time I photographed Molly, I felt that I was on a special adventure,” Karen Marshall tells me. “She always had so much to share and to say.” …
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Photographing sisterhood: 5 photo stories about female friendship
Karen Marshall photographs a group of NYC girlfriends for 30 years. Julie Dash’s 1991 Daughters of the Dust, Sheilby Macena celebrates Black sisterhood. Petra Collins takes a thoughtful and provocative look at sisterhood, youth, aging, and nostalgia. Meanwhile, Allison Joyce documents the surfer girls of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and Kathy Shorr captures friendship in the streets of New York. We take a look at the nuances of female friendship, as seen through the eyes of five photographers.
“I was raised by black women,” the Haitian-American photographer Sheilby Macena tells me. “I was surrounded by proud black women growing up. I saw …
Along the sandy shores of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, a group of eight young women aged ten to thirteen work from from early morning until late night …
New York based photographer Kathy Shorr didn’t initially set out to do a series on friendship. She stumbled across the idea while working on another …
