Nancy Forde
Women Photograph
Waterloo, ON, Canada
I am an Irish-Canadian photographer and visual seanachaí, Irish for storyteller. My work explores the sinew between humans and their environment, navigating themes of isolation, belonging, erasure, memory, boundaries and health. Of special focus are reproductive and mental health and the rights of persons most affected by targeted oppression and systemic failure to safeguard them. Polar health also draws my eye particularly in the Arctic, including its food security, cultural preservation, status as 'ground zero' for climate change and consequences from the continued fallout of colonialism upon its land and inhabitants. I like to use my lens to push past traditional perceptions and out-dated notions of home, family, gender and the north.
A current documentary project, Womb (https://womb.blog), examines 'what we carry and what we shed' and how courage and resilience bleed through the myriad ways the uterus affects our lives, good or bad.