she's just a stereotype
Stereotypes - don't we just hate them. It's great to live in an enlightened, modern society. Or so we might think.
Tomorrow is International Women's Day a worldwide celebration of the the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It began in 1911 and now embraces the United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace.
It would be great to think all the old sexist stereotypes have disappeared but of course they haven't. They've just got less explicit, gone underground and become insidiously more dangerous as a consequence.
As part of the celebration the Photography Group of which I am part have decided to devote this week to the theme of 'Women'. I shall warn you in advance the photos I intend to take over the next few days may not be conventionally pretty. They are designed to challenge, asking questions of how we look at our culture, our beliefs and each other.
Where better to start than with stereotype images of women. The intention behind these photos is to challenge whether such stereotypes have truly been consigned to the scrap-heap.
Each artificial image held up by the model hides the face of the real woman behind. Isn't it time we started to see not stereotypes but individual, unique and beautiful people?
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