New York City-based photographer Shae DeTar began painting on snapshots as an adolescent, overlaying images of real life with ethereal brushstrokes. …
Storyboard
Women photographing women: exploring the female gaze in photography
“Could a man have made these images? No, not my images.” - Mickalene Thomas. From Shae DeTar's mystical approach to the female nude to Arielle Bobb-Willis's surrealist interpretations of the human form, we take a look at how photographers are defining and reimagining "the female gaze."
Arielle Bobb-Willis. San Francisco, 2017. What we see is informed by how we look at it. What gets framed, by who and to what end are some of the …
La leçon d’amour, 2008 © Mickalene Thomas, courtesy Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) The artist Carrie Mae Weems once asked Mickalene Thomas …
When the gallerist Giles Huxley-Parlour discusses the work of Jocelyn Lee, he doesn’t talk about seeing the work “in person.” Instead, he uses the …
Over the duration of seven years, London based photographer Polly Penrose created a series of dynamic self portraits that examine a woman’s changing …
From Where We Came “At dusk and dawn, the edge of slumber and first light, these figures awaken out of the darkness and live in the hours when others …
Isabel Bateman in the Character of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1874 © Julia Margaret Cameron In 1865, The Photographic Journal published a review of the …
Tiana © Renée Jacobs Throughout her career, the photographer Renée Jacobs has heard men tell her about how women “should” be portrayed. She’s …
Storyboard
