Canadian born photographer, Cindy Schafer, made her home in Southern California, though her images reflect a life on the road. Growing up on a farm with parents that encouraged a visual life, Cindy became a socially conscious photographer and person, pursuing documentary stories about social change, the environment, people and cultures around the world. She captured the universal visual language of washing clothes in her very appealing series, Laundry.
"I don't think there is any aspect of laundry that I don't like. I also like to think of myself as a feminist: a woman who values political, social and economic equality between the sexes, a woman who has many more educational and career choices than the generations of women who came before her. Yet, laundry, along with other types of housework, has historically been considered "women's work". It embodies the soul of domesticity; the antithesis of everything a 1970's feminist stood for.... Laundry is washed in every corner of the globe, at every level of the socioeconomic spectrum whether one does it themselves or pays someone else to do it. Culturally, laundry unites us. Socially it still divides us."
Cindy was a recent Hey Hot Shot contender and also juggles life as a commercial photographer (including working the red carpet at the Academy Awards).
Laundry
Germany
Spain
Canada
Ireland
Wisconsin
Canada
Ireland
India
Slovenia
Italy
Italy
Laos
1 comment:
i recently moved to NYC and the lack of observing laundry on the weekends always makes me wonder how city life really infiltrates and rips part of our rituals away. This weekend i went to PA for a picnic and traversed my way through several small towns parallel to the delaware and to my surprise the sun was bursting through the leaves and house and house i saw lines, pins and clothes. I smiled for about ten minutes. I understand this photographers passion.
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