Feminine archetypes related to womanly chores: housekeeper, secretary, mother, lover. Boring stereotypes, relics of the past. Potatoes with pearls – Pola Esther’s work for Lampoon online
Womanity and feminine archetypes. Pola Esther for Lampoon online, Potatoes with pearls
Pola Esther’s photographic work for Lampoon, focuses on a series of photographs that reflect on the condition of women in the past and the image of them projected into the present day. Stereotypes that are linked to tradition and that re-emerge – in a perspective of objectification of the female body and gestures – in a sexist society, overlapping role and gender and drawing with this the destinies of an entire half of the population: that of women.
Title Potatoes with pearls
«The concept evolved from my recent project where I’ve been exploring femininity and experimenting with the idea of women who peel. Contemplating the gesture, the act of peeling, I started reflecting on different attributes of femininity.
Domestic woman who peels potatoes for dinner, professional woman who peels nylons and tights from her legs after work, sexual woman who peels fruit as an erotic fantasy. It led me to look closer at feminine archetypes related to womanity and womanly chores, ex. housekeeper, secretary, mother, lover. Several of them are inevitably becoming boring stereotypes, relics of the past».
Pola Esther – analog photography to explore human connection and womanity
Pola Esther is Polish-born photographer and mixed-media artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY and Old Lyme, CT. Often in bold, sensuous color, Esther’s photos consider themes of intimacy, human connection and the feminine, finding echoes between the body and the natural world. Esther has exhibited her work in her native Poland, France, Bulgaria, Germany, China, and the United States.
Julie Brooke Williams, stylist
Julie Brooke Williams is a fashion stylist and native New Yorker with two decades of experience. In 2023, she joined IATSE USA as a costume designer, expanding her efforts in television and film. With a unique skill for storytelling and photo art direction, she has contributed to various international publications.
Photography Pola Esther, styling Julie Williams
Hair and makeup Agata Helena
Casting Jean Jarvis @Area1202
Stylist assistant Jacob Cooper
Photography assistants Maddy Richardson and Brian Keith Stephens
Production assistant Edward Rich
Talents Natalie Renelle @MargauxTheAgency, Nancy Uddin @WeSpeakModel
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