Lisa Miquet : A Photographer Who Changes The Way We Look At Hair

Several emerging photographers have chosen the theme of the body and question our representation of people with disabilities, women or people of color. Among these young photographers who shake up the clichés, Lisa Miquet wants to change our view on female hair. Explanations.

A feminist photographer

Lisa Miquet is a photographer committed to the cause of women and equality.

The 30-year-old, who has been practicing photography since the age of 13, says she was inspired by the work of Bettina Rheims and Sophie Calle.

It was her feminist commitment that led her to become interested in the representation of female bodies and the beauty canons of our time.

Through her photos, young emerging talent exalts the female body in all its diversity and complexity.

She breaks the codes of a stereotyped femininity, which would correspond to a single standard.

This photographer has also immortalized rising female figures of the contemporary art scene: Angèle, Suzane, Pomme and Yseult.




Portraits without taboos

Lisa Miquet shows women's bodies as they are, including when they are fat...or hairy.

Through portraits very far from the stereotypes that women's magazines impose on us, this photographer breaks the taboos that our society places on the female body.

She reveals, with ingenuity and irony, the contradictory injunctions to which women are subjected.

While feminism and the #MeToo movement claim the right for each individual to freely dispose of his or her body whatever his or her gender and to present it as he or she wishes, women are still slaves to certain cultural and aesthetic shackles, such as the need to wax.




Women of all kinds

In the series Ornements, Lisa Miquet denounces more specifically the injunction to depilation. The relationship that women have with their hair is much less futile than one might think.

To represent this hairiness that women should get rid of at all costs, she used the technique of embroidery. She made portraits of women, all different, then embroidered them with colored threads.





About this series, the photographer explains, 'I really like to talk about very serious subjects but in a lighthearted way. Embroidering long hairs of all colors really excited me. I placed an ad on Instagram and did a casting call. I didn't want to photograph models but 'real girls from real life'. I tried to make sure there were models with different profiles.'

An artisanal manufacturing process

For this series, the photographer shot the portraits in the studio and printed them on paper before embroidering each print by hand with colored threads.

She then scanned the embroidered prints so that she could share them on the internet and social networks.





With her embroidered photos, some of which take on the appearance of surrealist images, Lisa Miquet invites us to reflect on unjust gender differences and the necessary emancipation of women's bodies.

Thanks to her photos, she hopes to change mentalities : 'We are today in an image society, we absorb images all day long, whether in the street, on TV, on social networks. They shape our collective imagination. If we can gradually transform them, we could also change minds.'

Author: Audrey
Copyright image: Lisa Miquet
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More informations: https://www.lisamiquet.com/ornement
In French: Lisa Miquet : une photographe qui change notre regard sur la pilosité
En español: Lisa Miquet: una fotógrafa que cambia la forma de ver el cabello
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