about the body


  • Photographer
    miriam givon
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2009
  • Technical Info
    Inkjet print on cotton paper

From young age I live with a muscle disease in my legs. From the point of view of dealing with the body I want to observe the concepts of the beauty, the health (the healthy body and the damaged body), the moral, and the normality while watching the body and its limits, the tension between the internal and the external, between freezing to motion, and between natural and inherited to social-cultural design. In the sea of offers and identities – where does the individual stand – a woman, oriental Jew, grew in a small village, Israeli, and handicapped

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