Throughout the last few years of photo classes, I have been exposed to countless photographers. Although I have not been fond of all of them, there is one in particular that has always stuck out the most - Elinor Carucci. This may be because I find almost every other photographer I have studied in my documentary-heavy classes dreadfully uninteresting, or it may be because I genuinely enjoy looking at the imagery she creates.
Elinor's style of photography is not one that other Anericans in my classes have found the easiest to look at, what with the photos dedicated to the struggles of having a period or even photos of her being with her family - nude.
I think I enjoy her work not despite all of the above, but because of all of the above. Photography that challenges the norm and what some would consider "comfortable" is photography that will stand the test of time. It will be seen as so challenging that it is constanrly referred back to in order to measure just how far we have come and how much our opinions have shifted.
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