#MISSHAPEN BREASTS PDF#
Shortly after, I came across a PDF health leaflet that disrespectfully referred to the vagina as ‘a front hole’. “I read a report about how 200 million girls and women around the world have suffered female genital mutilation (FGM), which angered and sickened me. In short: I’d have to confront the big stuff.” And although I’ve had pleasure, I’ve also experienced bad sex, traumatic birth and deep shame. You can’t go into a project where you interview women about their vulva, and not think about your own. I think a part of me was shying away from that intimacy because I would have to address my own related experiences. I also didn’t want to do it because I hadn’t faced myself in that way. “In my mind, I’d already covered women’s stories through breasts. At least, that’s what Laura set out to achieve. Now, her latest work puts vulvas and vaginas in the spotlight thanks to her new book Womanhood: The Bare Reality and forthcoming Channel 4 documentary: 100 Vaginas.Īnd when 100 women share intimate photos and deeply personal experiences relating to their vaginas, the result is a tender yet taboo-exploding message of women reclaiming their womanhood. In 2017, she focused her lens on penises to examine the concept of masculinity. The campaign reached its crowd-funding target of £10,900 in a day and featured powerful, untouched images and stories of anonymous participants aged 19 to 101.
I first met Laura, a photographer from Surrey, in 2015 following her exploration of 100 women’s relationships with their breasts. We really need to talk about them because many women haven’t looked at their own. It’s so important for women to know what vulvas look like. But there’s a world of difference between how you see vulvas in porn – and how you see them in real life. “Where would you normally see another vulva?” photographer Laura Dodsworth asks me. Contains adult themes, explicit imagery and very strong language
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