The Body and Photography: Image Making and Vulnerability with Frances Bukovsky

Recorded Thursday, July 2nd, 7 pm ET

Photography can be a delicate art, especially when practiced alongside vulnerability. Join photographer and multimedia artist Frances Bukovsky as she shares photographs and stories of her life lived within a vulnerable body. Through self portraiture, family documentary photography, and intense physical and mental trials, she has created bodies of work that reclaim narratives around health and ability. Frances will be speaking to us about the role of the body in image-making, the power of self-portraiture, and the ways in which vulnerability can open us to deeper levels of creativity and personal truth. For Frances, her work as a photographer is almost inseparable from her own inner-work. Together we will explore how healing can be made accessible through photography, and the ways in which photography is accentuated and deepened by our own inner-work. 

Frances Bukovsky is a multimedia artist who earned a BFA with Honors in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Bukovsky explores themes of health, gender, family, and memory through her photographic work. In her upcoming book Vessel. published by Fifth Wheel Press, she explores life after a hysterectomy and rejects the imposed narratives of femaleness that have outlined her struggle for comprehensive, informed treatment.