Jenalee Harmon

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Name

Jenalee Harmon 

City

Lake Forest

Country

United States

Joined

Feb 2008

A camera does not lie; it’s made not to. It’s not created to lie because of how sharp the glass is or how good the photographer. A camera has a mirror and prism and that’s all I need to tell the truth; this is the purest form of truth I know. All I need is to hold up my tiny mirror against the world and that shows the truth. That’s why I see things so much clearer through my viewfinder, because I’m looking through the mirror. Photography is not a field, job, or beauty to me; instead it is my missing attachment that has finally linked me to an expressive world.
I never felt like I connected with anyone, or anything, until I was able to place my camera before my eyes. My life has always revolved around a series of severe insecurities and guilt, and to have finally found a medium that didn’t care about my weight, my age, my height, my grammar, or my hand stroke allowed me to fully engage the intensity of the medium. I don’t look at Photography as an art, I look at it as if my essence depended on it.
The injustice and inequality against women has not only psychologically damaged me, but the general population and the medium as well. I feel like women have given up on fighting for that extra 30 cents to a dollar and have taken the back road; more and more becoming trophy wives. Not only has society postured women’s bodies, but endless accounts of the female ‘nude’ and ‘form’ rise within Photography as well. I’m tired of responses to these images as ‘beautiful’ and poetic. In my recent work I want to show my body in a horrible fashion in which I comprise my body as a vessel for self-loathing; as an instrument against the norm. I don’t reveal my body as an attempt to heal insecurities; I do it to show society, my lovers, my friends, and photography my hatred of the reverence for bodies. I want to place my body into pieces and capture each fault in an attempt to disgust and challenge people.

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