“The 'Tits and Ass campaign' was a response to the attitudes inherent in the very language, 'tits and ass'. Most female self-portrait artists who use their body in their artwork and who share their work with a wide audience will inevitably encounter accusations from certain viewers, who, confined to the thinking within the phraseology of 'tits and ass', do not see beyond male representations of the female body as they have become accustomed to it in magazines, porn, and striptease. Cynical of what they dub as body parts that somewhat innately seek attention, they leer at the woman's body and jeer at possibility of the image being 'art'.
Regardless of the sex of the viewer, it is a 'masculine' positioning which is adopted when these attitudes are thrown at female artists, so it is not to say that only men undermine the work of a female self portraitist, but both genders, whose freedom to recognise the woman's body as her own, is stifled by societal attitudes.”
I met the photographer Miss Aniela with my friend Marinda just before Christmas at her exhibition in London, we were lucky enough to be able to interview the lady herself and have since kept in contact. She is a source of inspiration for me, from her way of shooting to how far she's come just through Flickr fame. I've decided to post this shot 'A better exploration of the tits and ass issue' due to the negativity which can quite often come through female photographers using their own body in their art, and from the negativity I also received recently about this.
I think it says all that needs to be said ;)
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