Pictures of Linda Lunus

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Pictures of Linda is a collaborative storytelling project that is ongoing and experimental. The body of work develops in different directions through a process initiated by both subject (primarily Linda) and photographer (usually me). It is central to the project's ethos that photographer and subject change places at times, so that Linda becomes autobiographer as well as biographical subject. The work aims to question the power relationship between subject and photographer in the creation of photographic portraiture. 
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\nThe project has evolved over a thirty-year period and is still changing today: its continuous experiment in picture making represents a long-term commitment to challenging documentary conventions. The work tracks numerous lifestyle changes over time, as Linda’s life is represented in a variety of ways through her extraordinary range of costumes and guises. The costumes used in the shooting process all belong to her, and are not simply for dressing up: she wea

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