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I see depression, alienation, self-pity.
 

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Of course you should see photography through your own lens. You can't not do that. But why does your relationship with a woman photographer doing work about women have to be seen through the eye of your sexuality? Is that the only way you interact with women, through the filter of are they desirable to you or not? Your comment certainly argued for a broadening of the definition of desirability, but it still imposed the structure of desirability upon this woman.
 

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The project jtk shared from Lenscratch is not the total of this photographer's output. Check her web site. The attention she is being given is well deserved, and a product of years of effort.
couldn't agree more !
 
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Perhaps she is addressing that?
I've become increasingly aware of how I play my own role..as a serial monogamist ....cant deny it and don't want to. What I see in her photos has to do with a beautiful womans remorse and the passage of time.
 
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Remorse? for what? I see mostly self-pity, anger.

We see things through different lenses.

It'd be helpful if Photrio was somehow attractive to women, at least aware of them...but that will never happen. LensScratch, the source of my post here, is the creation substantially of women...that seems where todays photographic action is.... I do love women and am increasingly curious.
 

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Perhaps she is addressing that?
I've become increasingly aware of how I play my own role..as a serial monogamist ....cant deny it and don't want to. What I see in her photos has to do with a beautiful womans remorse and the passage of time.
I didn't see anything about desire in those photographs - they felt very introspective to me, and not about projecting her sexuality or stimulating the sexuality of others. They were projections of anxiety, fear, and powerlessness.
 
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