Anab, Lou Deeeley Nov 2011
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Lou Deeley, 2011
Lou Deeley, Barry Island, May 2011
Darren (my partner) and I went to Barry Island yeterday on a jaunt. When we boarded the train, I realised that a stray hanger was attached to my coat. Sadly I had to abandon said hanger at the end of the line. If there was an NSPCC equivalent for hangers, I would probably be on the front cover of the Daily Mail today.
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Here is a polaroid Darren took on my camera for a personal project of his. I intend on doing a series with my wheelchair sometime soon. I’m always saying this and failing to follow through with the assertion but now I actually have a concrete idea of what I want to do.
I have mixed feelings when I see wheelchairs crop up in fashion photography. On the one hand, I’m glad to see disability being represented in the media, however inaccurately because it is too often hidden and erased from the collective experience. On the other hand, when wheelchairs are used as props in fashion shoots, they often signify “strangeness”, that is to say, they are used in the service of the dominant discourse of “otherness” that surrounds disability in our culture.  Think Lady Gaga’s shock tactics in Paparazzi, for instance. I feel like I want to create a series of images that helps to normalise chronic illness, which is the locus of so much unspoken anxiety in a culture obsessed with physical perfection. Its tricky, though.
Lou Deeley Nov, 2011
Lou Deeley, July 2011
Lou Deeley, July 2011
Lou Deeley, November 2011
Sorry If I was being culturally insensetive here. I  now know better; see the link here for what I mean;
http://mycultureisnotatrend.tumblr.com/post/781005138/on-reverse-cultural-appropriation#disqus_thread
Opaque  by  andbamnan