Ella Haber
I am a senior at Baltimore School for the Arts and will be heading to college in the fall to study photography. I am also the photo editor of the school newspaper, The Muse. I use my art and skill to pursue social justice.
For Women’s History Month, and as part of my last spring here in Baltimore as a public school student, I would like to showcase some of my photography of women.
Women in society are trapped within the infinite maze of social orders. I want to crush these debilitating and degrading ideals of how a woman should be by photographing the infinite alternatives.
Imagine hues of red, women showing mischief, anger, power, pleasure, and irony. Eccentric outfits, rebellious expressions, and colorful makeup in norm defying pieces. These are some of the ways I use art to create questions within the viewer. I cut apart some photos and collage them into new pieces. I draw on top of photos with thick pastel. I overlay images to create abstractionism and curiosity. I challenge the norms of how a photograph should be, adding to the message that some social norms need to be broken to make change.
I want my images plastered on billboards, fastened to red brick across cities, scattered among old monuments. I want my pieces shown not in quiet museums to be passively observed and then forgotten but shown in unusual places where the photos will stick out and move, create conversation, maybe even controversy.
Art should be seen by all, dispersed throughout society. Art that is hard to swallow, art that calls for change. And that is why I am an artist: to show that women are bold and audacious. Strong and dynamic. Insatiable in the pursuit of justice and creativity.
Available for:
Fine art, Photojournalism
