A WOMAN
IN THE WORLD
A Woman in the World is a photographic diary of 2020, exploring aging, identity, perimenopause, and the stories beneath the stories.
The second half of 2019 found me firmly in a creative slump, disillusioned by influencer culture and everything that came along with it. I felt as though I was drowning in a social media sea of posts that either glorified hustle and lifestyles that don’t exist, or were the “faux-vulnerability” variety of confessionals with all the illusion of authenticity - minus the actual authenticity.
I couldn’t see my story reflected. So I decided to share my own.
The world needs more visibility for women to be seen as we actually are, not how we’ve been conditioned to present ourselves. I want us to applaud aging without apology. To question beauty and body ideals. To celebrate the years that greet us without feeling pressured to conceal or erase.
And…
I also want to be honest about how difficult that can be in reality. Because it isn't especially easy to embrace slackening skin, cellulite or huge hormonal shifts. It's not something we always feel ready or able to celebrate. Especially when we rarely see these experiences accurately represented.
A Woman in the World gives visibility to my own aging process and what that really looks like. The images are in black and white, to symbolize what is usually unseen and to highlight the ways that our stripped back moments are still significant.
Truth matters. Representation matters. This project is, in part, resistance to a World which condemns aging and fuels the myth of perfection and wellness, leaving little room for realities that simply don’t look like that.
120 days worth of entries for this project now belong in the National Women's History Museum as part of their “Women Writing History” project.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”