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WORLD PREMIERE Photographic Exhibition - Sydney, AUSTRALIA
'Intimate ENCOUNTERS' is a photographic essay by Belinda Mason-Lovering. It
explores the myriad connections between disability and sexuality. A sense
of our sexual selves is as vital to our existence as the air we breathe.
This is the pervading message present in every image in the series. The
quest is to create images which 'tell a thousand words'. Putting it out in
the world makes it real.
'Intimate ENCOUNTERS' comprises 30 photographic images and 1 film
installation.
Details of the exhibition are as follows:
7-25 February 2001
SOHO Galleries Leichhardt
Level 1, 70 Norton Street
Leichhardt NSW 2040
AUSTRALIA
Gallery opening hours: 12 - 6 pm; 7 days a week
'Intimate ENCOUNTERS' creates new visual messages about sexuality and
disability. These messages have a basis in the lived psycho-social,
political and economic realities of individuals with disability. People
with physical, intellectual, learning, psychiatric and neurological
disabilities have shared some of their most intimate thoughts and feelings
by being photographed. Indeed, the personal IS political.
In the words of Dominic Davies and partner Lee Adams (who were the first
people photographed in the series):
"There is an dearth of empowering, positive, sexy images of disabled people
and we want to be part of the movement to change this."
Dominic Davies will open the Sydney exhibition.
Each image has been conceptualised in collaboration with the photographic
principal(s) involved. The images are supported by quotes and biographical
information approved by each of the participants. These will accompany the
exhibition of each image.
Many people with and without disability have collaborated in this project.
All are activists and allies in a global struggle for a basic human right.
The right to be a sexual person. The proceeds from the sale or licence of
images goes to a trust fund being established to fund sex positive
initiatives which benefit people with disabilities.
'Intimate ENCOUNTERS' will tour; we will post further announcements as each
venue is confirmed. Please broadcast this widely. Please let me know if
you would like to participate in the series in any way as it travels around
the world.
For more information, please contact:
Lisa Sampson
Free Radical Enterprises
Phone: +61 2 9969 2098
Mobile: +61 0413 270 835
Fax: +61 2 9960 5879
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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