Good idea Sarah. Prove everyone in the world we don't even have enough
woman in the 9% of editors who can take a picture of some "trivial" thing.
Prove the world the only way to have picture of girls in commons is hiring
models and photographers to take them.
I have NO idea why no one thought of this before!
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On 6 May 2012 14:13, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/6/12 1:07 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote:
On 5/2/2012 9:39 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Don't miss
http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad
Where are women laughing as they chop up bloody sausage...
To me I guess I see hostility and dominance in the kind of shots people
have been complaining about. I don't think women should respond en masse
with the same, but if no one responds at all, I feel it is my duty to
mention bloody sausages.
Of course, women have responded here, but I guess not enough of a ping in
the fabric of world wide male dominance for me to keep my bloody sausages
to my self...
Hmmm... maybe I should write some of my favorite artists with
suggestions....
Or get rich and commission a bunch of stuff I like... whatever the them...
(Handsome male dogs of various breeds on their backs smiling and saying
"Scratch my belly mommy.")
There was an idea brainstormed a little while back with me and a few other
folks about seeking funding to have a "Wiki Loves Women" photography event
that wanted photographers to take photographs of women - and this wouldn't
be some broad crowdsourced thing like WLM, we would work with
photographers, various "models" etc and make this legit with releases, etc
- doing whatever we needed them to be better represented doing, so to say.
So, wearing certain articles of clothing (i.e. "go go boots"), certain make
up looks or uses, hairstyles, - places that are often poorly represented
regarding "women's stuff" (i.e. men don't get manicures that often,
sorry)
even as extreme as sex acts, I also wanted to just have women doing
"things" like mowing the lawn and planting flowers or pan searing salmon or
whatever things need videos to represent them (and no, these women wouldn't
be nude :P). The latter was inspired by Jenny Geigel Mikulay's work at
Alverno College where she had her students (it's a women's college) make
films of things like playing drums, the art museum building kinetic
architecture time-lapsed, etc. All of these videos have been uploaded to
Commons.
Someday I'll do it =) I can see it being a project that would be a perfect
fit for Kickstarter.
Sarah
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