- Contemporary photographer.
- Many images carry a depressing feel to them. This represents her anguish for not being able to conceive naturally or with IVF.
- Pictures cover her experiences through life.
- Her project Model Studies are a good example of questioning the ‘role of the artist’s gaze.
- Uses the camera as an investigative tool.
- “Involuntary childlessness”
- She talks almost with bitterness about the avoidance/non acceptance to talk about fertility. She has become a leading voice the means of ‘art’ to stand up and speak from a woman’s point of view about the subject. She sees ‘Involuntary childlessness’ as a taboo subject , which I think, understandably, angers her.
Elina Brotherus
Elina Brotherus B-1972