WOMAN & BODIES :Buku Sarkar

10 Apr

After seven years of creating self-portraits documenting my experience of living with illness, I began turning the lens toward other women and their relationships with their bodies.

Each participant in this project chose to explore an aspect of their past or present through photography. For some, this meant working through trauma, disorders, or fears. Participants decided themselves which parts of their bodies to reveal and how they wished to be represented. Whether their choices reflect personal truth, symbolism, or interpretation, the series centres on giving each woman full agency to be seen in the way she chooses.

The series, which I loosely call Women and Bodies in Art, explores the human form, vulnerability, and the many different relationships we have with our bodies. It also raises questions about women’s role within art: what it means for a woman to be photographed by another woman, why censorship is often unequal, where the boundary between art and pornography sits, and how gender shapes the way images are created and understood.