Photography and the Un/Body with Ash Hagerstrand and Frances Bukovsky
Photography and the Un/Body with Ash Hagerstrand and Frances Bukovsky
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, October 26th, at 7 pm ET
How can photography be a tool to explore identity and personhood? How is personhood defined in image making, and can the lens move beyond a physical body to explore corporeal, and non-corporeal (digitized) experiences? These are some of the questions that Ash Hagerstrand and Frances Bukovsky will be exploring in a discussion that examines both of their work in the context of questions that seek to navigate abstraction and identity. What is an image of a person without a body?
Ash Hagerstrand (@jesusluvsmemes) is a digital maximalist whose work incorporates collage, virtual augmentation, identity curation, and photography to explore the often fraught relationship that disabled people have with technology.
The latest iteration of this project examines online health communities and how our positive relationship to technology hinges on associations with wellness—“the cyborgian body is only divine when it masks our mortality.”
Frances Bukovsky (@Frances_Bukovsky) is a photographer who thinks about chronic illness, disability, and queerness in the context of relationships, their physical body, and medical experiences. Their current project Pathology incorporates their private medical records into lumen prints to investigate the dynamics of illness and privacy while exploring the space between data and physical experience.
Ash Hagerstrand
Frances Bukovsky
Ash Hagerstrand
Frances Bukovsky
