Pink Resonance

• Photographer
  Mony Nation
• Photo Date
  August 2024

This deeply personal series is a means of healing childhood emotional trauma in order to redress the unintentionally altered. Since I was young, I loved pink. Around age 7 or 8, I remember dress shopping and falling in love with a light pink one. I was told that "blue looks better on you" and was denied the dress. Although small, that interaction began sowing seeds of my opinion being disregarded which I internalized as what I have to say not mattering. This series is a way of taking back my power and voice. Shannon’s emotions here range from the unseen to timidity, reflection and triumph.

Mony Nation is an award winning, published photographer, writer, and designer who seeks to center Black lives, stories, and communities foremost as well as women from other ethnic backgrounds mainly through conceptual fashion, portraiture, and storytelling within the studio and nature. Her photographic works have been exhibited across the United States at venues that include Venn.Bushwick, the Montgomery Photo Festival, Nomad Works, South x Southeast Gallery, Slow Exposures, Grace College, Atlanta Photography Group, and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.