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Portraits, 1999-2001
This work began from an interest the concept of women being the primary repository and carriers of family memories over the course of generations. I produced nine photographic portraits of women over fifty years of age, their eyes closed in internal reflection. I was attempting to represent the inner strength of my subjects while allowing them to appear in a non-objective way. Along with issues of representation, this work also questions the relationships of model, viewer and camera as interlocutor. This work explores a sense of spirituality balanced with an acceptance of one's history and one's self. In a society which is fascinated by youth culture and beauty, the mature women is often unseen; her worth, life experience and work are commonly undervalued; this is evident in media where women, and especially older women, are underrepresented as well as misrepresented.
Black and White Silver Prints, 20"x24", Edition of Five