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As her mum, I snap a candid shot, but she has to hide her face. Her mindset has her over-analyse and undermine her self-confidence. Social media has taught her to hide away her flaws or she won’t conform to the materialistic ideas that are influenced upon her.
This is the harsh reality faced by many rural teenage girls who constantly compare themselves to the ‘city’ girls. Afraid to be themselves and advocate for who they are, they will simply hideaway. The distance and the location of rural communities is enough. Let’s not silence them either. Teach, support and encourage self-worth.
Curator’s Comment
This work combines striking image clarity, and high contrast areas of light and dark, with an unexpected approach to portraiture where the viewer becomes locked in the subject’s gaze. This image is raw and personal, imbued with youthful beauty and grappling with individual notions of identity. This work implies a coming-of-age narrative, contextualised through a lens of rural existence.
Katie Robertson is a self-taught, amateur photographer specialising in rural lifestyle and landscape photography. Residing in Dalby, Queensland, Robertson’s artistic storytelling journey is captured through her lens by exploring unique and raw elements of modern-day rural life of the people and land around her; expressing what she loves the most.