Jamie McCartney to produce new posters to raise money for Breast Cancer UK.
People can do as few or as many scans of these as they like.
Anyone over 18 can go along, whatever their body shape, alone or with a group of mates (women only) and get scanned in a private area at the gallery.
Just turn up or contact Jamie directly via email: jamie@jamiemccartney.com
The posters will be created in the same way as his larger Physical Photography body portraits using a converted document scanner as the camera. The process slightly abstracts the body in a comical, cartoon-like way, producing images that are at the same time realistic but non-representational.
They are analogous in some ways to his famous Great Wall of Vagina. By having hundreds of images of different women in a grid they demonstrate human variety as a whole and do not objectify the individual. They neatly sidestep pornographic or erotic connotations, instead showing the body and underwear in a new and highly original way.
One in eight women in this country will get breast cancer. In what is described by some as an epidemic, it is increasingly understood that environmental factors play a huge part. Breast Cancer UK works on a prevention strategy that Jamie believes is an excellent approach rather than focusing simply on a cure. He has no official connection with the charity. He just dreamed up this project and did it to raise money for them.
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