Studio Journal

I recently started to look at the work of a photography, Elinor Carucci. Her work is very personal and mainly revolves around her family. In her new series My Children there is a striking image of her nude body after a emergency c section and child birth. It is a difficult image to look at so I will not be posting it here. It can be found on her page http://www.elinorcarucci.com/recent.html . In a documentary I saw of her she discusses how she could not believe the way her body had changed since pregnancy. She was upset with the change but she said that taking a picture of her body acted as a type of photo therapy. Carucci became at peace with the way she had changed. For my next series I will be photographing parts of a women's body that they may feel uncomfortable or self-conscious about. Many women are unhappy or dissatisfied with the way their body looks and I intend to illuminate their issues. However, by photographing these parts of the body, I hope this serves as the same time of photo therapy and realization that the model's body is fine the way it is.