Agnès Geoffray is an artist living and working in Paris and Brussels.
She currently works with photographs and writings.
This image by Agnes Geoffray is called The Female
Shooter, and is a single image, not part of a series, that portrays a woman
holding a gun. From a first glance we suspect that she is holding the gun,
however, as you take a second glance you see that she is in-fact pointing the
gun at herself, whilst peering down the barrel of the gun. I did a little
research into this image, but unfortunately did not find enough to be certain
of why she is doing this. However, I feel as though this is a slightly
constructed image and that this is actually a self-portrait. I feel that due to
her using herself in the image, and that she is a woman, it adds an impact on
the image that this isn't stereotypical and that it is usually the male figure
holding the gun. This adds an enigma and invites the audience to question her
decision of photographing herself pointing a gun at herself. I looked into some
information about herself and her education as I was intrigued that the image
was taken in 2005, however looks like a much older photograph. I found it
slightly difficult finding technical information, and information about her decisions
for other photographs and so on, as no essays or interviews are written down
available for me to translate them, I only found a video interview which i
could not translate. However, I found out that she left "Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts - Paris, F." in 1997, 16 years ago, which I
estimated makes her around 27/28 years old if not slightly older. I felt this
made the image a lot more interesting as the medium she used has made the image
look older, and her decisions doing this are unknown.
http://www.agnesgeoffray.com/Agnes-Geoffray-CV_a22.html
I used this website to find out the
information I needed about Geoffray and her photographic work.
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