The other feminist photographer that is worth recognising is Sarah Maple. She is one of England's most influential artists and has been exhibited internationally. Her exhibition at Kunstihoone broke the museum's record for vision numbers in a single day, first weekend, and overall duration. At 30 years of age she has won 4 awards, released 2 books of her own as well as been featured in 7 others, made 3 documentaries, and been in many solo and selected group exhibitions. She is really making a impression as a feminist artist throughout England. Sarah takes a comedic approach to her pictures, she states, "The aim of my work is to give my audience food for thought. I believe comedy is a great tool to achieve this, which is why I choose to portray my conceptual ideas through a light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek approach". Her photos aren't as forward as Liora in their messages, but they are effective nonetheless.
Sources:http://www.sarahmaple.com
This first set of images with the princesses show that little girls can grow up to be whatever they want to be. She is especially including jobs where you don't usually see women like as a CEO, a soccer coach, a parliament member, a judge, scientist or surgeon.
The next set of images she has on the "Anti-Rape cloak" in all her photos. She is making fun of those people who say things like 'she was asking for it, look what she was wearing'. I think this is her way of saying 'were those kids asking for it how when they were dressed in their PJS and play clothes? '
This photo is titled "A male artist and a female artist" here I think she's trying to show how the world sees male artists in relation to female artists.
This one I love because this photo screams "fuck sitting like a lady"
What I get out of this one is that a lot of times when people look at women they sexualize them ridiculously and she's trying to show what it feels like to be looked and all they see is breasts.
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