Decolonising Design: Female photographer / Visual Artist - Elizaveta Porodina
What is Decolonising Design?
In my point of view, Decolonising Design is an encouragement for people to be more open-minded to design. Design should not be something restrained in Adobe Softwares, the black box, the rulers, etc.. It should be something popped out in your mind, the feelings you would like to share, the idea you would like to convey, the stories you would like tell and many other aspects.
How does ‘Gender’ relate to Decolonising Design as what is mentioned in the lecture?
It is not difficult to tell that still, in today’s art world, female creatives, critics and authors who are well-known in some way accounts for a minor part compared to male. This kind of imbalance happened all the time.
What do you think of the imbalance between male and female artists?
I don’t think it’s a great idea for the art world to be more developed and prosperous. People should be open minded and listen for more options from different artists and creatives. We should more focus on the people instead of his or her properties such as gender, age, nationality, etc..
All those properties are created by society instead of human’s nature. I strongly believe that we should more focus on the most natural part of human beings such as feelings, imagination and so on.
Are there any female artists you particularly like?
My favourite female photographer is Elizaveta Porodina, who is born in Russia and located in Germany, Moscow more often. She was a psychologist before and doing fashion photography at the moment.
Her work is different from other fashion photographer utilising dramatic lightning and strong colour. She has a great eye for capturing the most natural moment of human beings (models). In my point of view, photography is a way to convey your feeling, showing your view and communicating with the people in front of you. What Elizaveta is doing is aligned with my understanding of photography and plus, I’m a big fan of playing around with different colour.