Priscilla B. Varner is a contemporary portrait photographer specializing
in children, families and weddings serving Nevada, California, Colorado and
Florida. Her exhibition, “Emancipating
Jane: Challenging Representations of Legal Sex-Workers in Fine Art” depicts the
relationship “between the photographer and the subject by removing the
photographer, arming the legal sex-worker with the tools necessary to more
fully represent her identity.” features a collection of images of sex workers
photographed entirely by the sex workers themselves. This is an attempt to show
a more realistic approach to the lives of sex workers when we live in a society
that tries to portray them in a negative light and as objects of consumption
when sex work needs to be normalized and the stigma needs to be removed.
This
exhibition is one I found interesting and made me want to learn more about sex
workers and society’s reaction to them. I do think that the stigma and negative
thoughts that surround sex work need to be removed and sex workers need to be
shown respect just as anyone else. They shouldn’t be looked down upon just
because their line of work is different than a typical job.
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