Under the blog Photoworks, a project called Instagram Takeover was created. Photoworks, an organization dedicated to the work of photography focuses on trying to target individuals that are possibly aspiring artists or art enthusiasts by holding exhibitions, tours, talks and other public events both domestically and internationally. The project Instagram Takeover is compiled of multiple artists, over the span of five days, posting to Photoworks Instagram page showing their current work or what they are currently intrigued in.
This work is so interesting because there are multiple different artists involved in this project which means that there is no limitations to the work that is seen. There are people and objects of all kinds covering many ideas and themes. Some of the artists works that I found most interesting were Juno Calypso, Delphine Fawundu and Sara Shamsavari. All are their works aim to different theologies but all grabbed my attention. Calypso plays with and even tests the role of femininity by photographic women in uncharacteristic roles that would not typically be seem as their feminine role. Fawundu attempts to breakdown the political and social constructs of race, gender and class and explores the distance and connections between internal and external identities by photographing both African American males and females in challenging images that combine a common cultural element with a modern one to counteract. Shamsavari tackles the ideals of judgement and equality of diversity with a photograph of a women who exhibits multiple fashion choices that evidently shows she is a blend of more than one and not subjected to limitations of diversity. I think this is a great project that can easily explore a wide variety of photography with ease but not simplicity.
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