Coral Dress

• Photographer
  Marky Kauffmann
• Technical Info
  Digitally Enhanced Chemigram
• Photo Date
  2021

I’m taking back the dress which can be seen as an object of female objectification. I want to reclaim it like women, attending the 2017 Women’s Marches, took back the color pink by wearing pussy hats. My dresses have become symbols for all I love about identifying as female. They are elegant, bold, creative, sexy and surprising! With these dresses, I celebrate the power and possibility of all things female! I want to live in a world where women and girls can be and do and wear whatever they want!

Marky Kauffmann is a graduate of Boston University and the New England School of Photography. She has been working as a fine-art photographer and educator for thirty years. Kauffmann taught photography at the secondary level at independent and public schools. She spent two decades teaching photography to adults in the New England School of Photography’s Evening Program. Kauffmann has curated photography exhibits including Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers, which traveled throughout New England from 2014-2020. Kauffmann has served on the Board of Directors of Griffin Museum of Photography