The brilliant Colette for my Ages project. I've said this before, but it's very true, it's deep a privilege for me to meet and to get to know such brilliant people.
You can read Colette's words and see our photos in https://starshumansnests.com/phil-pool-art/ages/colette/
Ages - a joyful reframing of age, and an art/photo project highlighting the BS of ageism.
#Ages #ageism #FuckAgeism #FuckThePatriachy #equality #Human #nakedPlanet #nakedProtest
Another wonderful person added to my Ages project, the 22nd person. Hopefully a couple more this week. https://starshumansnests.com/ages/
Much as each individual story is interesting and, hopefully the images are good too, they are all part of a wider project. It is about the social construction of age, which is largely harmful. Each participant is another example of someone, whatever age they happen to be, just being present - who and how they are just now. Do read what they have to say, the photos are vital of course, but they are only part of the process.
I'm hoping to gather more people and to stretch the age range of the participants and the diversity of body types. Get in touch if you'd like to join.
#human #blackandWhitePhotography #nakedProtest #ageism #ages #equality #bodyfreedom #bodyPositive #artprotest #fuckThePatriarchy #socialConstruction #socialConstructionOfAge #monochrome
Photos to post on a chilly Monday - a summer's day from several years ago for my Human Nests project. The project is a study of how we might be as naked humans in our environment - vulnerability and strength.
More information at https://starshumansnests.com/
#nakedInNature #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Naked #NakedProtest #ColourPhotography #ColorPhotography #Maize
#FotoMontag Jan for my Ages project which seeks to challenge the #SocialConstructionOfAge - more information at https://starshumansnests.com/ages/
#PhotoMonday #Sea #NakedinNature #NakedInPublic #Nude #NakedProtest #Ageism #agePostive #BodyPositive #Brighton #FreeTheNipple
Photo of Tiffany for my Human Nests project - how are we as naked humans in our environment.
Taken at #NewhavenFort December 2020.
https://starshumansnests.com/humannests/newhaven-ovingdean/
#NakedHuman #NakedProtest #Sea #SeaScape #Landscape #NakedInNature #homeless #Homelessness #NonSexualNudity #Sky #cloud #artPhotography #ScenicPhotograpthy #WinterSky
Amma for my Human Nests project -
[Edit.. I found out that Amma died just recently ๐ - so sad - I'm glad we made these wonderful photos together as, as well as looking great, we had fun, lots of laughter - sleep well Amma xxx]
Strength and vulnerability in our environment.
#monochrome #blackAndWhite #Texture #NakedInNature #graveyard #homeless #nakedProtest #Nude #PhotoMastodon
Tiffany-Ann for my Human Nests project. The project aims to show how we are as naked humans in our environment - both strong and vulnerable, a part of nature and apart from nature.
#fotoMontag #PhotoMonday #ColourPhotography #Concrete #NakedInNature #Naturism #Homeless #NakedProtest #ColorPhotography #Nude #strength
Sue for my Ages project - fire dance.
https://starshumansnests.com/ages/sue/
#SocialConstructionOfAge #ageism #agePostive #bodyPostive #nakedProtest #burlesque #monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Joyful #NakedInNature #Human #FireDance
@ellasoul I'd really like Mastodon to be different in lots of ways to Twitter and to Instagram. Instagram has such a dominant role in the promotion of image based content now. But like everything #FuckZuck it's stuck in a stupid, sexist, patriarchal view of the world typified by its absurd bans of women's nipples and other body types it doesn't like.
Twitter allows nudity but an awful lot of it is just people reposting other people's images without permission or credit, or without the permission or knowledge of the subject.
Instagram constantly bans art/photos that include non-sexual nudity and imposes it's rules in more and more absurd ways making users self-censor until their work is 'nice' and 'bland' and inoffensive to it's advertisers.
But still, I get far more traffic to my website https://starshumansnests.com/ when I signpost to it from Instagram. But I mostly have to ruin my images with stupid censorship to avoid a ban.
Even so, I've posted, censored, non-sexual images of disabled subjects and has bans when similar images of non-disabled people have been allowed.
So, unless Mastodon picks up, I need to keep posting images in Instagram ๐
#FuckInstagram #DontDeleteArt #FreeTheNipple #NakedProtest #DisabledRights #BodyPositive #PhotoMastodon
Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!
Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.
It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.
I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.
It's all bullshit.
I'm doing a photo project about it https://starshumansnests.com/ages/
I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.
It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.
Thanks for your post.
#Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice
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