Show Us Ya Tits – Gemma-Rose Turnbull

Show Us Ya Tits

My photographic project “Show Us Ya Tits” looks at the role breasts play in women’s lives. This series combines portraits of women relating some of the defining experiences of having breasts, and their attitudes toward them. With images of breasts displayed in public, I am most interested in how breasts are perceived within popular culture and how individuals and groups respond to this.

I am also interested in the way women see the role and function of their breasts, and how they judge their aesthetic appearance compared to media stereotypes. I intend to continue the series by looking at the role breasts play in the lives of women who make a living with them.

Gemma-Rose Turnbull

Gemma-Rose graduated with first class Honours in Photojournalism/Social Documentary from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (QCA) in 2005. After completing months of work experience at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Northern Star she started a full time position as a photographer with The Northern Star, a regional daily newspaper based in Lismore, Australia.

She is currently working as a freelance photographer in Brisbane, Australia. During the course of her degree she travelled to Vietnam to work as technical support on the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation workshop with Tim Page who is an adjunct proffessor at Griffith University. She returned again in 2007 to supervise the tech- nical systems and to design the IMMF magazine. Gemma is tutoring photography at Griffith University this year.

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