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’?
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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!