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Focus Artist : Zora Sicher

Updated on 17 February 2021
For our new edition of Exposed we have chosen a strong and vibrant visual created by the New York based artist Zora Sicher.
Zora Sicher is a multimedia artist and photographer from Brooklyn, New York City. Zora has been taking photos since she was 13 and almost a decade on, this Brooklyn-based photographer is championing women in a way that goes beyond the female gaze, proving being a female photographer doesn’t mean being pigeon-holed as a ‘female photographer’. Her investigation explores the ever-changing presence of photography, and a duality between its ancient processes and newfound ideas of digital image making – both of which she practices in conjunction in her current work. With a strong focus on the uncensored human body, she brings her unique perspective to the forefront of our consciousness.

© Zora Sicher

© Zora Sicher

© Zora Sicher

She self published her first book Progreso 110 in 2018, along with two solo shows in New York and Mexico City. Sicher uses a muted, nitty-gritty palette to shoot young people: Mexico’s wave of creative youth, visions of girlhood in New York, and photos of intimate friendships. When she’s not working on personal or documentary projects, she is soaring to great heights with editorials for Dazed (including portraits of fellow Dazed 100er Storm Reid), and AnOther, as well as campaigns for Barragán, Gucci and Chloé.

© Zora Sicher

“I’ve taken a lot of photos of women, so my work has a lot to do with a strong female presence. The two explore the dialogue between the photographer and the subject and extending that further. I think it’s relevant now because it’s always been male photographers and female muse, and the muse is a body, and a projected subject, but the conversation just ends there. For me it’s about having the muse transcend the space and not just be a photo, a face, or a body.” She does that through focusing on “intimate spaces” of the female body.

 

Sources :
– https://talent.maworldgroup.com/new-wave-creatives/zora-sicher
https://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/article/39709/1/zora-sicher-photographer-biography-dazed-100-2018-profile
https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/zora-sichers-first-solo-show-and-book-opening-in-nyc.html#_ga=2.71937879.510134941.1613556767-1601567215.1613556767