I am a photographer and painter. I am from Portland, OR and I have just introduced my artwork into the NFT/cryptocurrency marketplace.
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Jady Bates
I have been locked inside since March. It has been almost a year and a sort of desperation is seeping in and seeping out. It is tangled and multi-layered, but deep and real.
I went blind 5 years ago... I began photography only 4 years ago. Surgeries saved my vision (mostly) and once I could see again, I was terribly disappointed in how flat and ugly "reality" looked.
As women and identifying females everywhere, we see, we act. Our voices are not loudly heard or read, or broadcasted as often, but we act - many times without fanfare.
Women are still struggling with being considered beautiful by the old, stereotypical standards, but I believe women are changing the status quo. It is still most women's inclination to pose and adorn herself according to what a man would want.
Anger is both relief and a body flood to action; transitory though it may be.
Love is surreal - learning and accepting, joyfully, yourself and others.
The Most Popular Photographers published in Dodho Magazine. The great stories by June Korea, Ole Marius Joergensen, Kai Nagayama, Jady Bates and Krisztina Laki .
New York (5 Dec – 31 Dec, 2016) This series depicts the process we all go through in learning to love oneself. It is an awkward, joyful, illuminating, exhausting, humorous and messy affair.
Working Jill is a photographic conceptual series that represents there is a notion of humor about a very serious subject still seemingly controversial today. Equal pay for women in the same jobs as men.
Women no longer feel the need to please the previously-ordained-in-media's "male gaze." Females are finding their voice and their own visions in how to adorn themselves: women according to women.
