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Shot info: 28mm f/4 @ 1/250s @ ISO 200 (28mm f/2.8 APS-c)
My Concerned Photographer photo series is based around rape culture. I think these photos capture the experience of a rape or sexual assault survivor.
Rape Culture creates an environment in which rape and sexual violence against women have been normalized and/or excused by the media/popular culture. Rape Culture develops a society that disregards women’s rights and safety through the use of misogynistic language and objectification of women’s bodies (Marshall University). Despite this definition, rape culture is not limited to the victim blaming or slut shaming that many women face. Rape culture is also the assumption that men can’t get raped.
Each of the photos I took for this assignment tell the story of my experience as a rape and sexual assault survivor. I tried to tell the story from the night it all started, through the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, to the struggles with addiction, depression, and anxiety. PTSD can manifest in many different ways, in my case it took form as a sense of paranoia or heightened anxiety. I used double exposures to show the dissociation people who suffer from PTSD often feel. For me, dissociation usually feels like looking at myself from outside my body or things are moving too fast or too slow; I tried to convey that disconnect with double exposures because I feel like those could go either way in terms of expressing fast or slow movement and since they’re self portraits, they are literally a way to view myself from outside my physical body.
Victims of sexual assault are 3 times more likely to suffer from depression, 6 times more likely to suffer from PTSD, 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, 26 times more likely to abuse drugs, and 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide (RAINN). According to these statistics, drug abuse or addiction is one of the larger risks sexual assault survivors face so I chose to focus on that rather than alcohol abuse or suicidal ideations.
1 in 6 American women will be the victim of rape or sexual assault at some point during her life. I chose to represent this with 6 apples. In my mind, apples represent a sense of innocence because they bring to mind elementary school, where you might bring an apple to your teacher, or Snow White eagerly biting into the poison apple the evil queen offered to her. So if we view people as apples, it’s safe to say that most little girls don’t grow up thinking “There is a 16% chance I will be sexually assaulted someday.” However, there is a 1 in 6 chance and I want to make sure that information is out there so it can inspire people to work towards change.
The final photo in this Concerned Photography series is a self portrait. The background is made up of words that I, and many other rape and sexual assault victims, have heard far too many times. I chose to use these negative words and phrases as a background to symbolize leaving them in the past and moving forward into a society where people think before they speak and don’t tear each other down for their appearance, situation, or experiences.
On May 5 2014, the Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) at Brookings hosted Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania for an address on Georgia’s vision for Euro-Atlantic integration during a period of increased insecurity in the region.
©Paul Morigi Photography
Ice climber in bright red jacket on a classic route Re-nirmalization at Lake Willoughby, Vermont, USA
Reframing the Pap Smear – Opening Reception
Monday, January 9, 2012
Venue: Art Bar
Visual Arts
Don’t fear the smear! Women’s health doctor demystifies the speculum as a tool to embrace, not avoid.
Reframe the Pap – the creation of women’s health doctor Sheila Wijayasinghe – looks at images of the speculum, the medical tool used in Pap tests to normalize the instrument by placing it in various familiar surroundings – with the view that women should be equally comfortable with regular pap testing as they would be with everyday objects.
“Pap testing is a women’s best defense against cervical cancer. Women should embrace the speculum as a tool of positivity and not fear the smear,” says Dr. Wijayasinghe.
Every year in Canada over 1,300 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and almost 400 women will die annually of this disease. While the Pap Test itself is a short procedure, it can invoke a great deal of anxiety in women. Some women are afraid of the speculum, the plastic or metal tool used for the Pap Test, and avoid seeing their doctor.
“Art and social media are some the best tools to promote healthy life choices. By starting a conversation about rarely discussed health topics we can increase awareness and help women make active choices to support their well-being,” added Dr. Wijayasinghe.
All proceeds raised from Reframe the Pap will go towards the Immigrant Women’s Health Center (IWHC) in Toronto, a sexual health clinic serving immigrant, refugee and marginalized women across the City of Toronto.
More About Reframing the Pap Smear Here
Art Bar: The Art Bar (named after a weekly figure drawing class ongoing since 1957) is our storefront room with large windows facing Queen Street West. It is an intimate space for parties, meetings, conferences or exhibitions.
Photos by: Laynna Meyler
The 2020 EPI agriculture issue category includes the sustainable nitrogen management indicator. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as a 0–100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target.
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - MAY 13: Maria Claudia Garcia, Colombian Vice-minister of Environment Normalization, Carmen Busquets, Founder ofNet-a-Porter, Iris Aguilar, Master Artisans Wayuu and Cecilia Duque, Former Director Artesanias de Colombia, attend the panel 'The Creative Economy & Conservation as Pillars of Sustainable Development' during the afternoon session at the 2019 Concordia Americas Summit in Bogota on May 13, 2019. (Photo by Gabriel Aponte/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
Inner Coffin Maatkare (The Royal Cache TT320, Deir el-Bahari)
Egyptian Museum Cairo, CG 61028
Detail of normalized colours
Sometimes using a long lens can highlight certain elements not readily apparent with a more normalized perspective. In this case the 300mm view makes the bend in the tracks, marking the peak of the Elkhorn grade, very obvious.
Mosaic of two frames
SE ED102 + SE Red. 0.7
Luminance (ASI2600MM, L-Enhance, 900s, g100, 15 frames total)
RGB-(HOO) (ASI2600MC Pro, L-enhance, 300s, g100, 15 frames total).
Pixinsight, BXT, NXT, STX, Bill Blanshan’s HOO-Normalization and StarReduction scripts. Final edits in Photoshop.
My Concerned Photographer photo series is based around rape culture. I think these photos capture the experience of a rape or sexual assault survivor.
Rape Culture creates an environment in which rape and sexual violence against women have been normalized and/or excused by the media/popular culture. Rape Culture develops a society that disregards women’s rights and safety through the use of misogynistic language and objectification of women’s bodies (Marshall University). Despite this definition, rape culture is not limited to the victim blaming or slut shaming that many women face. Rape culture is also the assumption that men can’t get raped.
Each of the photos I took for this assignment tell the story of my experience as a rape and sexual assault survivor. I tried to tell the story from the night it all started, through the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, to the struggles with addiction, depression, and anxiety. PTSD can manifest in many different ways, in my case it took form as a sense of paranoia or heightened anxiety. I used double exposures to show the dissociation people who suffer from PTSD often feel. For me, dissociation usually feels like looking at myself from outside my body or things are moving too fast or too slow; I tried to convey that disconnect with double exposures because I feel like those could go either way in terms of expressing fast or slow movement and since they’re self portraits, they are literally a way to view myself from outside my physical body.
Victims of sexual assault are 3 times more likely to suffer from depression, 6 times more likely to suffer from PTSD, 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, 26 times more likely to abuse drugs, and 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide (RAINN). According to these statistics, drug abuse or addiction is one of the larger risks sexual assault survivors face so I chose to focus on that rather than alcohol abuse or suicidal ideations.
1 in 6 American women will be the victim of rape or sexual assault at some point during her life. I chose to represent this with 6 apples. In my mind, apples represent a sense of innocence because they bring to mind elementary school, where you might bring an apple to your teacher, or Snow White eagerly biting into the poison apple the evil queen offered to her. So if we view people as apples, it’s safe to say that most little girls don’t grow up thinking “There is a 16% chance I will be sexually assaulted someday.” However, there is a 1 in 6 chance and I want to make sure that information is out there so it can inspire people to work towards change.
The final photo in this Concerned Photography series is a self portrait. The background is made up of words that I, and many other rape and sexual assault victims, have heard far too many times. I chose to use these negative words and phrases as a background to symbolize leaving them in the past and moving forward into a society where people think before they speak and don’t tear each other down for their appearance, situation, or experiences.
Left: color as rendered by MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems)
Middle: white balanced by normalization of RGB color channels
Right: color remapped based on a MAHLI artificially lit night shot
Source File: mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00170/mcam/0170ML09...
Night Time Shot: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16711
New Project I'm starting to normalize conversations about homelessness and how each of us can do our part to help.
Normalized and smoothed spectral profile of the star Etamin in the constellation Draco. Used a 102mm f7 refractor and SA100 grating.
Power 4 Periods (@power4periods) is a club at Downey High School that is dedicated to normalizing menstruation and providing menstrual products to any student in need. Our club consists of about 15 high school students - grades 9th - 12th - and started as a project in Ms. Simpson's English 11 class. We were challenged to present a project that would address a major problem in our society and we wanted to discuss pink tax and the taboo around menstrual cycles. This project evolved into a club that is now recognized school-wide. We hold an annual feminine care drive to gather products for local homeless women in our community. Currently, we are working to fund feminine care kits for each of our classrooms on campus and we hope to spread those kits into the middle schools in our district.