thunk: ryan manning v traci matlock & ashley maclean
As a collaboration, we started out pretty shocked that people thought of us as photographers with an overt feminist agenda, or even as feminist photographers at all. The amount of mail we get from people who think we deify the female form and attest to some kind of ‘real beauty’ is equal to the amount we get warning us against (mostly, sometimes praising us for) being transgressive and consistently seeking the ‘ugly in the beautiful’ for shock value. I don’t know that I’m shocked by hearing either one of those any more, although I certainly was for a while, but I’m surprised that the numbers are still equal.
