How I See Myself and How Others See Me: Photo Exhibition
Using photography to tell stories of vitality, violence, growth, loss, ageing
Friday 05/04 Drop in 14.00-19.00
Saturday 06/04 Drop in 12.00-17.00
Samuel Alexander Building (Foyer), University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL
How I See Myself and How Others See Me explores identity, self and the multiplicity of womanhood. Inspired by the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, it unpicks the costumes women must often wear in life and asks who we are, or want to be, when that costume comes off. Using photography and poetry as avenues of ethnographic exploration and research, , Wemmy Ogunyankin met 18 strangers had coffee and cake with them, talked for hours and then turned each conversation into a poem and images to tell their stories.
Wemmy is a creative anthropologist and alumni of University of Manchester’s Visual Anthropology MA programme. Her work centres around photography, poetry, identity, vulnerability, love and social justice. She is currently doing a PhD in American Studies at the University of Hull.
