The Art

Ballad Of Our Changing World

In response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, photograpHER, a global online collective of women photographers, has organized a photographic exhibition. This catalog accompanies that online exhibit. For this show, photograpHER asked her members to submit work that they created in response to Covid-19 and its impact on their everyday lives or their communities. Twenty-seven women from around the world responded to the call. This is the result. The show presents the photographs as a collective visual story of our shared experience of isolation, fear, change, and creating connections.

Captivity

Captivity refers to ways in which women unconsciously self-destruct to free themselves from all kinds of social and psychological pressures and worries. They often do this to relieve pressure on social relations and establish a more harmonious relationship with society. In many situations, taking these actions may be the only way to deal with everything from politics to religion to traditional gender-oriented power dynamics. However, these actions often have the opposite effect in destroying a person's relationships with the community and surroundings over time. Eventually, allowing themselves to be chained ends any connection with the world around them while creating its own mental conflict. For many women, this is their reality, though they are often completely unaware of this bondage. But because of the often-invisible nature of these constraints, many of them are willing to destroy their universe and surroundings.

Color Of Freedom

Color Of Freedom explores the fight for freedom and equality. Research and countless interviews with many women are the center of these multimedia works.

Sovereign Flesh - The Architecture of Resistance

The series Sovereign Flesh: The Architecture of Resistance is about a woman reclaiming herself, quietly but firmly, against everything that has tried to keep her in the shadows.

It speaks about the female body in a world that has often tried to own it, shape it, and put it into limits that were never hers. In these images, light and darkness are always in tension. The deep black background carries that weight of pressure and silence placed on women by social systems and patriarchal structures. But even there, the body doesn’t disappear. It stays. It pushes back.

The light on the skin feels like something coming from within, not from outside, a kind of inner strength, a quiet glow that refuses to be shut off.

The folded body, the self-embrace, might look fragile at first. But for me, it’s not. It’s protection. It’s self-love.

When the outside world becomes too heavy, she turns inward and holds herself, literally. She becomes her own safe place. Every curve, every fold of arms and legs, becomes like part of a structure holding her together.

These images are about a kind of delicate strength. A tribute to women who have lived through pressure, inequality, and silence, but are still here. Still standing. They show the female body as something alive, untamed, and deeply its own strong not in spite of its softness, but because of it.

Women As An Unlucky Prophet