Women are a constant subject for my photo work and for a while I have wanted to direct a photo shoot to depict how social change revolved around the role of the women in the past and how similar perceptions are still present today.
My theme is based around our society in the West, and what has happened to all of us in it.
It's also about human nature, and the gap between how we think about our lives and what we actually make of them in practice.
In the past, women tried to create the perfect haven of domestic bliss - for men.
The women were housewives, mothers, mistresses, in a culture defined for them and controlled by men. Cooking them dinner, taking care of their children, cleaning their house, and waiting for them to come home to take care of them some more.
Although a lot of women today have come a long way from the “I Love Lucy” ways of pleasing their husbands or significant others, there are still “desperate housewives” drowning in the shadows of their male counterparts because they feel inadequate to make it on their own.
In my series, I have two models representing super-housewives living a life of empty pointlessness and systematic betrayal by their husbands, waiting hopelessly for them to come home in their expensive apartment on State Street overlooking the skyline.
This series is meant for the viewers to see the friendship, rivalry, betrayal, selfishness, hollowness, and, above all, existential loneliness they feel.
Thank you to Ella and Yelena for being great models and Iris for beautiful hair and makeup!
Also, thanks Ben and Ash for the great hosting!!
