Photographs That Disturb Me
There is a rather famous quote that goes something like this, “Opinions are like a**holes…everybody’s got one.”
Without further ado, here’s mine.
I don’t like photographs that depict women as dead.
Especially FASHION photos.
As a matter of fact, they make my blood boil. It further infuriates and confounds me that women go along with this most blatant example of obvious misogyny by either posing for the photographs OR by creating these images themselves.
It seems, at least in fashion and certain parts of India, that the only thing better than a super skinny, barely post pubescent female is a DEAD female.
Disclaimers and caveats.
The two photographs I am featuring in this post were taken by a young, female photographer that I greatly admire. Her name is Zhang Jingna and you can find her website here. She has incredible lighting skills and unique visual ideas. I follow her on Flickr and do not intend to stop.
I am not singling her out. She is but one in a sea of photographers and models who participate in this genre – Guy Bourdin and Izima Kaoru spring to mind. Nor am I suggesting that Ms. Jingna is in any way responsible for the fate of young women, or anyone else for that matter. Her photographs merely illustrate my point.
Photograph by Zhang Jingna - From A Beautiful Death photo spread in Filler Magazine
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Yeah. Ahem. Not so much.
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