Photographer Suzanne Levin uses her camera a an artistic and political tool as in this picture of a person in a reclining wheelchair as part of a peaceful, stark and thorny landscape Photographer Melanie Walker pictures a spritely monkey riding a trike in a murky out of focus other-worldly place In the brightness of the afternoon sun, photographer Constance Head shares a gushing fountain in the middle of a vast deserted street with no one around to enjoy it

Suzanne Levine

"Spirit of Survival"
b/w gelatin silver print
(24" x 20"), 1993

Melanie Walker

"Earliest Memory"
manipulated gelatin silver
(20" x 24"), 1995

Constance J Head

"A Bizarre Light Came Over the Campus"
high speed infrared film/computer enhanced
(29" x 23"), 1999

 

Suzanne Levine - "I was remembering Mrs. Habife.... I've always enjoyed the camera itself growing up, and I used to take it apart and try to put it back together.... but when I went into high school, I took a photography class and there was an instructor there who didn't quite get what I was trying to do because I like things really intensely high contrast. But she encouraged me nonetheless and she let me argue my point of view of what I liked.And that felt really good. I felt like it gave me a sense of "self" in a certain kind of way in knowing what I wanted, what I liked, and if she didn't like it okay."

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