Introducing the issue, Orcutt and Woolley highlight that feminist self-representation is always an inquiry into evolving intersectional experiences.
Elizabeth Orcutt
Elizabeth Orcutt is an academic artist who works with photography and digital collage. She makes self-portraits to explore visual subjectivity; her work very often dispenses with likeness. Completed in 2022, her PhD by practice was entitled Reflection and Photography: Images of My[visual]self, which proposes visual self-experience residing within the look, neither as a subject nor object, but as an intrasubjective experience. Forthcoming group shows are Cicle at CICA Museum in South Korea and Where are We Now? at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, Devon. She teaches in the Cultural Studies team at the Fashion and Textiles Institute at Falmouth University. She also works for Fotonow CIC in Plymouth, supporting their work by delivering socially engaged projects using photography as a tool for advocacy. Before moving into teaching and academia, she worked as a picture editor in the news media.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey