The REAL Housewives of The Bible

So, hey, you've seen the what, when, why, and how...let me tell you the "DONE" - as in, "Last time in the life of Princy, she finally accomplished something worthwhile!" :)

As some of you may know, I like art. I like writing. I sometimes wear highlighter colors in the middle of winter. And I don't care what other people think of me. My only concern is what God thinks of what I say and do, and what He WANTS me to say and do. 

That being said, for my final project in my photography class, I decided to do a photographic narrative titled: "The Real Housewives of The Bible". 

NOTE: These photographs were shot in black and white film, printed on fiber paper, and then photographed with a smartphone. The quality is not as great as it should be for some. 

Genesis 4:1 
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man."

Genesis 16:4
He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Genesis 30:14
During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30:15
But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”

Joshua 2:17-18
Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us swear will not be binding on us unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house.

Judges 5:7
Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel.

Judges 5:27
At her feet he sank, he fell; there he lay. At her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—dead.

Judges 16:15
Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.”

Ruth 4:10
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

Esther 4:16
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

Now when I decided to do this project, I knew I did not want some generically pretty women standing around. I wanted to portray these women in their power, their beauty past their bodies. After watching Miss Representation, not only was I angry at men but angry at women who put themselves down. We do not live in a "man's" world, we live a human world- but we turn women into sexual objects. We turn men into 18-year-old BOYS who need boobies and butts to keep their attention. We degrade both the men by saying they are not worthy of strong women who can think for themselves and do not need to show their bodies off, and we clearly degrade the women by making them less than what they are: divine daughters of God. 
Therefore I tried to shoot these women in a way they are not usually seen, and of course, my amateur skills need work and I will definitely re-shoot them, but I want to let you know that that's what I hope to learn in NYCUP. It is not just me volunteering in the city and opening my own eyes, but I want to translate that knowledge in my art and my passion, so that it is not just me who benefits from this mission and this internship  but you- my peers, my friends, my relatives, my teachers, my students, and anyone else who comes in contact with me:) 

P.S. Watch Miss Representation  if you have not already! (Every time I want to throw a chair into the patriarchal society I confine MYSELF in). :O --meaning it's good!