Through a series of photographs, Davey uncovers her relationship with her daughter Alice who has Down syndrome. This unusual confession speaks to our social and personal fear of ‘difference’.
Sian Davey
Sian Davey is a photographer with a background in Fine Art and Social Policy. For the past 15 years, she has worked as a humanist psychotherapist. Her work is an investigation of the psychological landscapes of both herself and those around her. Her family and community are central to her practice.
Sian has recently completed her MA and MFA in photography. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Eugene Smith Fellowship Grant, the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Portraiture, Prix Virginia Woman’s Photography Award (3 consecutive years), and the National Gallery Taylor Wessing Portrait Award. Her book Looking for Alice was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Best Book Award 2016, and the Kraszna–Krausz Foundation Book Award. Her second book, Martha, was published by Trolley Books in 2018.
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