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Artist Interview Casey Orr's Social Post-Documentary Practice The Power of the Photographic Image to Reconnect

Casey Orr
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Casey Orr’s photographs engage with the changing experience of time and space, lines and borders, as her work travels back and forth across the Atlantic. In the 2007 narrative series By Water, the artist draws on her autobiographical oceanic experience as she took a cycling trip from her home in Leeds to Liverpool where she boarded a container ship, The Independent Venture, heading for Chester, Pennsylvania, her birthplace. Her story includes other people’s stories, seascapes and portraiture, building a strong sense of interconnectedness between communities linked by water. Two years later, she chose to keep on exploring the idea that all things are linked in a threefold photographic series, Comings and Goings, based on the notion of migration in a northern industrial setting. Her blown up photographs were shown on the fortified walls of Armley jail in Leeds. They represented colourful migratory birds firmly held by gloved or bare human hands, migrants now living in the Armley community, and family portraits of the prison inmates, all strangely connecting in defiance of the prison walls, and bringing together the prison service, inmates, victims and the photographer around a shared artistic project which offered a new reading of the systems of power in use in the prison. Making people visible is a recurrent concern of Orr’s photographic project, as she uses photography to investigate the idea of a lost connection between human beings and their environment, questioning notions of identity and the self. Saturday Girl (2014) is a series of portraits of young women with a particular interest for their hairstyles and their cultural meanings in terms of counterculture or undercurrents in culture, creating visual codes and a sense of belonging to a tribe, as well as giving the young women a sense of power in being ostentatiously visible. In Animality, her ongoing project, Casey Orr considers the relationship that women have with animals as a way to contradict the alienation of contemporary life from the natural world. She keenly observes the sense of empowerment brought to women by the wearing of exuberant furs. She constantly ponders over her status as a producer of photographs i.e. cultural artifacts which are empowering images in the lives of women, and she seeks to document creative interactions and connections between communities and the world that surrounds them.
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Casey Orr, Julie Morere. Artist Interview Casey Orr's Social Post-Documentary Practice The Power of the Photographic Image to Reconnect. E-CRINI - La revue électronique du Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l'Interculturalité , 2016, 8, 16 p. ⟨hal-03597647⟩
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