Fixing Femininity

Informed by my personal experience with organized religion and conditioned ideologies, my photo-based practice aims to explore my position as a female photographer who contributes to the commodification and consumption of women’s images while also undermining and complicating standard and stereotypical versions of female narrative. In this paper, I unpack the impact of my personal history with Evangelicalism, the importance of nature as a reoccurring motif in my images, the role of the camera and photographic exploration, and the trajectory of my practice as established by my thesis photo series titled "Finding The Pieces"