#girlgaze: photography, fourth wave feminism, and social media advocacy. Issue 6 (2nd November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Looft, Ruxandra
• Is Part Of: Continuum. Volume 31:Issue 6(2017)
• Page Start: 892
• Page End: 902
• Publication Date: 2017-11-02
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- Australia -- Periodicals; Broadcasting -- Australia -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2017.1370539
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1030-4312

Abstract

Abstract: The Girlgaze website was founded by television personality Amanda de Cadenet in 2016, as a social media project seeking female photographers to fund, promote and exhibit. The project lauds itself for offering girls from around the world an entry into a traditionally male-dominated profession and providing a platform where female artists can share works created through the lens of a 'girlgaze'. This article positions the Girlgaze project within the discourses of fourth wave feminism and explores how Girlgaze challenges a male-dominated industry. It also raises the questions of whose gaze we are seeing and whose world is being privileged in the production of these virtual image galleries. A closer look at the Girlgaze project, its incentives and structures raises essential questions about self-representation, social media advocacy and photography as a medium to convey any sort of truth about the world.