For a change, something positive in the lives of women who work the streets — they were given cameras and asked to photograph their world.What do you see? What’s your life like? Tell your story in your own way.
Ten sex workers, part of a drop-in at All Saints Anglican Church Community Centre, recorded and revealed their lives using disposable cameras. Their photographs are now part of Exposure Project, a fundraising show at Holy Trinity Anglican Church which ends Thursday in gala that’s already sold out.
The women are proud of their work. It shows life at its most ordinary. A pair of shoes, a bed, a street view, the everyday subjects that have preoccupied and inspired artists and photographers through the ages.
“We wanted to give them a voice, to emphasize their strengths and pull out their talents,” says Carly Kalish, a social worker, who organized the project with her friends Meredith Blidner and Alexa Feldberg.
They had no money when they started the project. A friend donated $300, an artist organized photography workshops for the women and the project was launched.
