Where Shame DIes

Download or read book Where Shame DIes written by Trista Marie McGovern and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Shame Dies is a cohesive project about disability x sexuality, presented as a photo book featuring a series of essays and prose. Trista Marie has been a photographer for 12+ years and resided in the Twin Cities for a decade. Since moving to the Twin Cities and attending college, her work has explored vulnerability, stemming from exploration of work presenting abstractions of bodies. Pursuing this thread, Trista had a solo gallery about confidence where she displayed her photographed of people nude. The models wrote a blurb to go with their portraits, which were shown paired together. This marked the beginning of Trista's interest in the interplay and relationship of image and text. After posing as an art model herself, an unraveling began for Trista, who went along with it and pushed herself to challenge her own vulnerability. By sharing herself more and more through modeling, working with disability and her body in general, Trista realized that the culmination of her work and experience needed to combine disability x sexuality. Trista used her body of words to inspire the images, as well as her physical body as model. Each essay is accompanied by a photoshoot in which Trista models with another model of her choosing, ultimately creating sensual and intimate images that co-mingle with her essay and prose.Ultimately, Where Shame Dies uses photography to give people permission to look, while saying, "Guess what? Disabled people are sexual."--and then brings it all together to look at ableism and romance.