PHOEBE BATCHELOR

New Years Eve Armageddon & Ginormous Cumulonimbus

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:03:00 -0400

New Years Eve Armageddon & Ginormous Cumulonimbus

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:12:00 -0400

Photo

Sun, 12 May 2013 07:11:53 -0400

Benedicte Desrus: UGANDA: Persecution of homosexuality This...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:21:00 -0400

Benedicte Desrus:

UGANDA: Persecution of homosexuality

This photo Documentary is an enthralling series of photos where Desrus takes portraits and scenes that have captions about the bill. Over 85% of Ugandans are homophobic, under the Anti-homosexuality bill signed by David Bahati, anyone accused of ‘aggravated homosexuality’ or ‘un-natural sex’, could be sentenced to life imprisonment or a death penalty. I love how this photography captures the emotions suffered by gay Ugandans as well as the utter hatred from the other side bringing the viewer in sympathetically.

I have recently done a series of portraits exploring this law but for privacy reasons, cannot put them on the Internet yet.

nuestrahermana: Nuestra Hermana’s WOC Photography Series:...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:50:00 -0400

nuestrahermana:

Nuestra Hermana’s WOC Photography Series: Zanele Muholi

In 1972, Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi Durban. After completing an Advanced Photography Course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newton, she held her first exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2004. She most recently earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in 2009.

She worked as a reporter and photographer for Behind The Mask an LGBTQI African magazine tackling queer community issues and visibility. In 2002, she began FEW (Forum For The Empowerment of Women), an organization providing a safe space for black queer women to discuss and organize.

Her photographic work is deeply rooted in both exposing the issues affecting the lives of African lesbians, African women and the black queer community. Her photographic art challenges the usual portrayal of black bodies. Her work has addressed and brought visibility to HIV/AIDS, assault and the violent crime of “curative rape” against black queers.

Her work is intimate, honest, raw and emotionally charged.

She has held 6 solo exhibitions and has been part of several exhibits. One of her most well known being her first solo exhibit titled ‘Visual Sexuality: Only Half The Picture’. She has received 6 awards and contributions including the Tollman Award for Visual Arts and the Casa Africa award for Best Female Photographer.

You can learn more about her and her work by checking her website HERE.

Check out the archives here

(Please do not remove this article/bio attached to this photoset. This series is written specifically to promote & educate about POC photographers/QPOC/POC issues.)

Muholi has been a huge influence to my Documentary project on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. It was great to see her photos in the flesh alongside other photographers at the V & A, they really gave an insight to political issues in Africa.

Sneak peek of my Documentary photography exhibition about the...

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:22:00 -0400

Sneak peek of my Documentary photography exhibition about the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda.

Private view on 23rd May, 2013 at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Diana

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:06:00 -0400

Baby in a bowl

Diana

A very starry night sky on Bulago island

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:15:00 -0500

UFO

Raining stars 2

A very starry night sky on Bulago island

First meeting with anti-gay Pastor

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:35:47 -0500

I’m meeting the famous Ugandan Pastor, Martin Ssempa, who was in a YouTube video that went viral a couple of years ago.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w)

I’m interviewing him for my photo-documentary project about Uganda’s anti-gay bill but I somehow need to argue that homosexuality actually isn’t all that he says it is. Apparently finding some very disturbing gay porn and accusing homosexual’s of being disgusting and wrong is more important than helping a very poverty stricken country.

I obviously don’t want to offend his religion, and I’m interested to hear his argument, but I need to find a way of contradicting what the Bible says about homosexuality sensitively and prove to him that homosexuals aren’t influenced by the Western world. Scientists and Psychologists have proved that homosexuality isn’t nurtured and the majority or children brought up by two gay parents turn out heterosexual and there is much more evidence of homosexuality from hundreds of years ago, but is this enough to change his mind?

Building swallowed by fog

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:17:09 -0500

Building swallowed by fog

A new years eve storm

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:01:00 -0500

A new years eve storm

Going for a drive in my dad’s Ford V8 Woody

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:23:00 -0400

Going for a drive in my dad’s Ford V8 Woody

An abandoned house in Uganda

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:02:00 -0400

An abandoned house in Uganda

Breathtaking stars at Lost theory festival, Croatia

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:32:00 -0400

Breathtaking stars at Lost theory festival, Croatia

Another gramophone made by my Godfather

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:43:00 -0400

Another gramophone made by my Godfather

Jack Long’s beautiful high speed photography

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:58:55 -0400

Jack Long’s beautiful high speed photography

I have a small obsession with kitchens and...

Sun, 20 May 2012 19:03:00 -0400

I have a small obsession with kitchens and bathrooms

musesofdesign:

(via desire to inspire - desiretoinspire.net - Ashley Capp)

Coffee (mug) grinder

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:17:00 -0400

Coffee (mug) grinder

Organ in a barn

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:05:44 -0400

Organ in a barn

My Godfather, Graham, contently listening to one of his...

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:23:00 -0400

My Godfather, Graham, contently listening to one of his home-made gramophones