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Ingrid Andersen |
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Brooke Atkins – Dyson
I am a portrait photographer who for the past two years has concentrated solely on photographing children as a way of expressing my own experiences from childhood. My photographs are therefore not portraits in the traditional sense: they are metaphors for childhood, and for myself. Dyson is ultimately a reinterpretation of the stylised memories that I hold from my own days of youth. I view the environments/activities that I was exposed to in childhood as the shaping factors of my socially accepted, gender stereotypical behaviours in adulthood. As a child my bedroom was filled with toys considered to be gender appropriate, many of which heavily promoted sex roles. It is my thought that the inerasable codes of femininity were imprinted upon me during these extremely impressionable early years of life. It is my intention for the female viewer to relate to this photograph, connecting it to their own childhood experiences, and thus adulthood.
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