Performing Non-Performance: The Photographs of Leniqueca Welcome

  Photography and Text by Leniqueca Welcome, Copyright 2016 . Performing Non-Performance: The Photographs of Leniqueca Welcome . As a former architect now engaged in doctoral research in anthropology, concerned with the politics of representation, my pictures foreground the agentive work photographs do as objects allowing persons to negotiate different ways of being.  My work … Read more

Carolyn Wong: Artist Statement

  Photography and Text by Carolyn Wong, Copyright 2016 . It is amazing what an effect your surroundings can have on the person you become. Whether it is the location, the culture, or the people, you will find yourself changed. Between living in a female led household and attending 13 years of single sex education, … Read more

Soraya Hebron: For the Love of Saartjie

  Photography and Text by Soraya Hebron, Copyright 2016 . At the age of 20, Saartjie Baartman of South Africa was sold to a Scottish doctor and taken on tour as the main act in a “freak show.” She did not have any tricks up her sleeve to entertain. She never sang a tune or danced to a … Read more

Naeun “Kelly” Ha: Dismantling the Penn Face

  Photography and Text by Naeun “Kelly” Ha, Copyright 2016. . Dismantling the Penn Face . “Penn Face”- what does it really mean? For me, it is the phenomenon of Penn students putting forth an image of themselves that is unflawed, put-together, unstressed, and perfect. Walking around campus, one sees a student body that appears … Read more