Photographer; Lola Flash
Flash's Salt series features women over 70, who are still passionately engaged in their life’s work. In a culture where beauty is equated with youth, these women are not only striking but accomplished, while still making significant contributions to society.
Subjects include Agnes Fund, Ruth Pointer and renowned civil rights activist Esther Cooper Jackson. The women are all photographed at their homes in order to capture the texture of their personal lives alongside the portrait itself. This series aims to combat the invisibility that some older women experience, and to highlight the deep-rooted cultural and societal biases that remove older women from the public sphere.
Flash works in the tradition of twentieth- century portraiture, exclusively using a 4x5 large format camera to bring the importance of the sitting to the subject, and yields a truer image transmitting the energy, spirit and seriousness of both the women and the project.
