In living water

Photographic prints
Triptych: 45 cm X 65 cm | 65 cm X 45 cm | 45 cm X 65 cm

This piece started with the idea that who you choose to photograph as a photographer, and how you choose to photograph them, reflects as much about you as it does about the sitter. I did a series of portraits with four young women of colour from a church I attend. I choose each women because I identified with each of them in various ways as young women of colour navigating their relationship with their spirituality. I brought my subjects into the studio and photographed them while having water poured on them capturing how each individual reacts to the water, communicating their various personalities. The water was used to signify the various metaphors of water with spirituality. The warm colours and tones where constructed to subvert the idea of waters typical attachment to blue and coolness and instead interpret it as more warm, vibrant and full of motion and life. The colour yellow is specifically significant of women deities. This trio of photos forms one part of a series.