ENTRY DESCRIPTION
" DENIAL" is a series of 27 wet plate collodion 8x10 tintypes made with a large format camera and a 19th century lens.
This is a look at the difficulty for women to see themselves in the mirror as they are and accept herself as they are. Thanks to a specific used of a photographic process that leaves a lot of accidents on the pictures, I want to let you perceive the negative thoughts that a woman can generate facing her own image.
These work also evoke cumbersome beauty dictates imposed by men and society that make the assessment of its own image that arduous. Combining the high and law of my life and the one of all the women around me, younger and older, I felt the urge to express how revolting it is to have it so difficult to think about oneself outside and despite anything to do with how we look like and how the one we seek love from wants us to look like. It is kind of tabou to talk about it even if it is such a big part of any woman's life.
There is still a lot to understand and to be changed in any and everyone's behavior to find freedom and peace for women.
Paris, France, avril 2016.

AUTHOR
With a degree in History, Art History and Political Science from La Sorbonne university in Paris, Mj has been nevertheless a professional photographer since she was 17. As she isn't n her 20' since a very long time, it has been a lot a lot a lot of years exploring a lot of facettes of the job, from grand reportage to war photographer, politics, corporate or celebrity portraits.
When life became more serious and bitter, through numerous griefs of love ones in a short amount of time follow by a cupple of years of sickness, her photography became more mystical, now a medium for art and a way to run after what makes sense, now a quest for hidden poetry and spirituality, facing and seeking the weirdness outside classical representations that open the vision of life to a whole new level.
She turned to an artist whose work feverly pushes the boundaries of traditional photographic and printmaking practices.

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