Meghann Wiedl

The Photographer, The Ethnographer

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If you’re anything other than a cisgender heteroromantic heterosexual individual and you are a witch please reblog

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Hello and thank you for visiting my website.

A little about myself and my interests; I am a lifelong artist who is committed to social justice and visual activism. I am especially interested in portraiture and ethnography and how these two genres co-inform and produce knowledge. I have spent a fair amount of time in academia studying sociocultural anthropology looking specifically at critical race theory, critiques of contemporary capitalism, and gender and sexuality scholarship. I bring these specific lenses into my work as I critically analyze my role as a white, raised poor/working class queer woman. I am fascinated and inspired by natural light and the intimate moments shared with me with the folks I photograph.  The power of visibility through photographic evidence of the lived experience of peoples whom are otherwise marginalized by mainstream society continues to inspire and spur me create.

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My favorite images from a shoot are usually the moments that I capture that are somewhere suspended between intention and a breath taken to relax.

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Ferry Ride to Lopez Island.

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At this moment it seems that queer visual culture needs to nourish our sense of potentiality and not reinforce our feeling of disappointment. If we are to go on, we need a critical modality of hope and not simply dramatization of loss and despair

-José Esteban Muños, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (via qpocalypse)