PEOPLE * LOVE * PHOTOS is a film about photography and family life, sexuality and love. It looks at different human role models, whether in sexual releationships or in family life. The film accompanies Tanyth Berkeley as she photographs people on the street, the so-called “forgotten ones”, in the tradition of Diane Arbus. Ashley MacLean and Traci Matlock, the superstars of flickr.com, draw us into a new visionary relm of sexuality with its various facets ranging from vulnerability and longing to pain and shamelessnes. In the last part of the film Elinor Carucci shares her thoughts on family life, love and motherhood.
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.
My Little Dead Dick - The diary of photographers Patrick Tsai (A.K.A. Pat Pat) and Madi Ju. 2006-2007
Source: farm1.static.flickr.com
Photos from Patrick Tsai - also, on Flickr
