Pictures for Politics and Pleasure

A personal account of her development as a feminist/concerned photographer and
her involvement with the Women's Self Portrait project (Birmingham), which
posed questions about positive/negative images of women. Also discussed is her
work for the Co-operative Development Agency, and the issue of the impact of
social documentary photographs/posters. Her own solution has been to construct
social documentary 'truths' in the studio. Her work for the West Midlands Low
Pay unit involved research, problems of access and a resulting series of works,
Worth Paying For, which combine studio constructed images with photomontage,
social documentary and portraiture (formal and informal). As the Ten.8 editors
state: ""it combines ideology with popular culture''.