CBU Photography - 2019 Finding Beauty

The four female photographers in this exhibition seek to explore concerns beyond the surface of popular photographic imagery; testing the traditional conventions of representation that are often determined by their male counterparts in the industries of fashion, documentary and fine art photography. These images celebrate photography’s ability to render all that we imagine visible, but also critique its limitations. For “now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but soon we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that we know now is partial and incomplete, but soon we will know everything completely, just as God knows us completely.” (1 Corinthians 13: 12) Who holds these standards of beauty and who decides what is worth recording? The photographer must aim to see more than what is visible.