Transcendent Women

Much of my career was spent working as a social issue documentary filmmaker telling stories that explored the lives of girls, women, and femme identifying, revealing the barriers they face in their quest for personal autonomy, and had at their core a driving desire for liberation—physical, sexual, economic and psychological from the cultural domination of men. My work as a photographer starts where my films left off. 

The feelings of bearing a woman’s body, both physical and emotional, comprise the most intimate sense of selfhood. Drawing from the thoughts of Walker Evans and T. S. Elliott, my series Transcendent Women seeks to challenge the limitations of the male gaze that presents the female body as the metaphor for sexuality, by presenting portraits of women as transcendent, images that contest the many controls imposed on the feminine by powerful patriarchal systems, whether they are political, cultural, religious or social.