Females & Forests

4x5 film, 2019

Females & Forests is a series of female portraits taken in forest landscapes. Each image presented a singular female figure gazing directly into the camera with an awareness of the viewer. Creating the images, individually titled with the model’s name in a series called Females & Forests, introduced large format photography into my art practice, but more importantly, it established questions of female identity and representation in relation to nature as key themes in my art practice. These images prompted reflection on my engrained patriarchal understanding of femininity and triggered my desire to create images that would engage with religious and cultural entanglements of my female experience.