In Conversation with photographer Paola Paredes (Photo Gloucester)

Hundred Heroines

To accompany her festival exhibition, Skin Deep, Paola joins us to talk about the inspiration behind the work.

Hundred Heroines is honoured to host an evening with Ecuadorian photographer Paola Paredes, who will discuss her series Skin Deep, which will be shown for the first time in the UK as part of Photo Gloucester (#PhoGlo).As well as learning about Paola&#x27;s process in creating a photographic series that celebrates the lives of people from the LGBTQ+ community, Paola is also offering an opportunity to interactively engage with the artwork in an online community &#x27;unpeeling&#x27;.Throughout and at the end there will be an opportunity to engage in a Q &amp; A. So get your QR scanners ready and settle in for an evening with one of the leading women in photography.About Paola ParedesPaola Paredes is an Ecuadorian photographer whose work is centred around the experiences of LGBTIQ people, and how they navigate attitudes towards homosexuality in her home country. Through both staged imagery and documentary photography, Paola illustrates personal and complex interactions between sexuality, culture and religion.About Skin DeepSkin Deep is an interactive photographic experience. It presents fifteen stories, representing the diverse sexualities and gender identities of the queer community in Ecuador.Merging tactile interaction with new technology, the images presented break with traditional dynamics of museography and visual arts. The viewer becomes a participant who, through the act of touching and tearing the image, reveals the depth of each narrative. Skin Deep transgresses and questions how we interact with art; its innovative narrative creates a unique, playful and individual experience. The interactive nature of the work invites the viewer to consider the subject beneath the surface of appearances, creating an empathetic and immersive approach to the humanity of these everyday stories.This project aims to tear aside perceived stereotypes, and show a community that is ethnically, economically, generationally and emotionally diverse. It rejects the limited definition of gender or sexuality as static or innate. It recognises both as something fluid, built by each individual throughout their lifetime as they understand and consolidate their own identity.Sign up to our <a href="https://hundredheroines.org/newsletter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">newsletter</a> and please <a href="https://hundredheroines.org/donate/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">donate</a> so that we can continue to bring free content like this in the future.You can text Text 100H to 70085 to donate £5. Texts cost £5 plus one standard rate message

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