On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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.
Commons' coverage of platform shoes or high-heeled shoes for example is
appalling, given the thousands of designer shoes out there:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Platform_shoes
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:High-heeled_shoes
Generally, Commons lacks "Pinterest" ...
http://pinterest.com/
... meaning that the sort of imagery that is characteristic of a
women-dominated site like Pinterest is very underrepresented in Commons.
As the WMF board resolution last year noted, the situation with model
releases for pictures taken in private situations is dire in Commons. So
many photos of this type are poached from Flickr without bothering to ask
the Flickr account holder for model consent. The best way of showing up the
present inadequacies would indeed be to do some work where all the t's are
crossed, and all the i's dotted: proper copyright release, proper consent
forms. It could be a model to be emulated.
Andreas