TALK - GENDER FLUIDITY IN FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
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TALK - GENDER FLUIDITY IN FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
For organisational matters, we are unable to sell tickets at the door, so please book all your tickets online.
Mina Raven invites four creatives to speak about their insights in the fashion and photography industry.
Featuring Max Barnett, Editor in Chief at Pylot Magazine, Bex Day, fashion and documentary photographer, Masha Mombelli, stylist and art director and Jacob Mallinson Bird, model and drag queen.
The talk will discuss their experience and how gender fluidity became natural in the narrative of their work, the challenges faced and how they transformed gender fluidity to a strength in their career, the importance of controlling our own narrative in visual culture in order to keep the discussion open and get rid of gender stereotypes.
Finally the role and the importance of education/academia, media and society in creating public awareness.
We will end the talk with a Q&A, music and drinks!
Host
Max Barnett - Editor-in-Chief of Pylot Magazine
Max Barnett is a Photographer, Magazine Editor, and Image Editor based in London.
He moved to London in September 2010 in order to complete a BA in Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster. While studying he developed the original concept for a new magazine, which later became PYLOT Magazine.
PYLOT was officially launched in 2014 after Max assembled a small team, who worked together to create the magazine’s identity. He currently works as the Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director of the magazine.
Alongside starting a magazine, Max has established a career as a freelance photographer, working with a range of clients and magazines.
Speakers
Bex Day - Fashion and Documentary Photographer
Bex is a photographer based in London. Her work focuses on humanity. Anthropological with a twist of the surreal, her imagery has the ability to tell a complete story within one frame, a factor aided by carefully selected locations, casting, lighting and positioning. The viewer is often encouraged to relish a long, sustained look at minute details within the imagery.
She has given lectures on her work at Cambridge University, The Hepworth Gallery, Recylart, Brussels, and the Vogue Italia Female Gaze Exhibition 2016, as well as being nominated for the Magnum Graduate Award 2016. Her clients include i-D Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Carven, Stella McCartney, Adobe, AnOther, Topshop, Garage magazine...
Masha Mombelli - Stylist and Art Director
A London-based fine art graduate from Serov College and Vladimir Sterligov’s school in her hometown of St. Petersburg, Masha Mombelli applies the education to her work as a fashion editor, art director and stylist. Collaborating with a broad spectrum of clients spanning from leading magazines to celebrities and high street brands, she uses pieces of garments in a sculptural way shaping multilayered looks by playing with colour, volume and texture.
Masha has contributed to Harper’s Bazaar, Numero, Vision China, Interview, Puss Puss and Hunger, and her cultural commentary has enriched many roundtable discussions on SHOWstudio during Paris and London fashion weeks.
Jacob Mallinson Bird - Model and Drag Queen
Jacob Mallinson Bird is an international drag queen and model, signed with Tomorrow Is Another Day. Jacob's alter ego, Dinah Lux, has performed globally, from NYC to Tokyo, and is also part of drag troupe Sink the Pink. Jacob is also an academic, reading for the Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology at Wadham College, Oxford.
https://www.instagram.com/jmallinsonb/?hl=en
+Special guest to be announced soon!
