Essays, text, and…
Alongside her photography work Katya has been writing about photography for academia; exploring feminism, disability, activism, the right to representation, and body looks.
Download and read a variety of essays below, all essays are available in Open Dyslexia, if you have any reasonable accessibility accommodations that she can meet she will try her hardest to meet them - please get in contact.
The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself.
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Joanna Hedva
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The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. ✳︎ Joanna Hedva ✳︎
What role can photography play in the ‘identity work’ described by Belk (2013: 484) and / or any other postmodern understandings of ‘self’?
Disability representations in popular visual media:
How disability representations can change perspectives, and the importance of giving authorship and control back to disabled people.
In their text on The Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva asks: ‘How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?’ (Hedva, 2015)
How do visual and written forms of media inevitably ‘Other’?
Get in contact:
If you’re interested in hearing more, or just want to pick my brain about something please get in contact here or email me: katyataylor00@gmail.com
I would love to talk more about the themes discussed in each of these essays, and I would love to hear from you!