I tell stories with mannequins. These images, made on film with a Holga camera, reflect my fascination with the idea of bringing inanimate objects to "life" and using them as alter egos to tell a personal narrative. Their presence in the landscape creates a strange juxtaposition between the natural and the artificial, the actual and the imagined, suggesting a realm where beauty and strangeness, the unreal and real meet. In this series I confront issues around female identity and archetypes, our hopes, dreams and fears, while exploring themes such as isolation, independence, surrender, freedom, creation, loss, motherhood, sacrifice, and the struggle to define ourselves and our place as women and individuals in the world.
These images are available in a limited edition, vintage gelatin silver series, printed on fiber based Forte Polywarmtone or Agfa paper, printed in my darkroom between 2003-2010. These papers are no longer made.
They can also be printed as contemporary archival pigment prints.

Please contact me for more information or to see more images in this series not pictured here.