Greenberg, J (2018) The Female Lens. At: https://alreadymade.org/the-female-lens/ (Accessed on 1st of September 2019).
This articles by Jill Greenberg i quite useful for my work. She states that around 90% of images we see in the media are taken by a man, so effectively we are seeing the world through a male gaze. Greenberg talks about her own experiences in the field, like how she was getting turned down because she was a woman. She states there is a deep inequality in Hollywood too, where men would photograph women, and a male photographer was chosen by a committee of women. She states that Oprah, who encourages women, only used male photographers for her magazine between 2013 and 2017. Greenberg believes that these men, who are commissioned to create images, are able to shape our world, so in turn they have the power. She believes the solution is to have women photographing half of the images. Greenberg went further and created a company which lists only female photographers, called AlreadyMade.
(Greenberg, 2018; Stewart, G).
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