Examining the intersubjective experience of looking and being looked at, Orcutt, the artist, tries on different visual gender identities.
Elizabeth Orcutt
Elizabeth Orcutt is an artist and educator. Her recently completed PhD is entitled Reflection and Photography: Images of My[visual]self. Making photographic self-portrayals in series of visual essays (attempts or try-outs), Orcutt interrogates a visual self experience residing within the look, neither as a subject nor object but as an intersubjective experience. She works as cultural studies and photography lecturer in the Fashion & Textiles Institute at Falmouth University, and with social enterprise Fotonow CIC in partnership with Plymouth Marjon University. Before joining academia, Orcutt worked as a picture editor, most recently at The Times (London), and also on discrete projects for Reuters and Tortoise.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey