Vice

NATALIE - "IS THIS ME"

THIS IMAGE IS ABOUT MANIPULATING MY BODY IN REPRESENT IT AS THE PHYSIQUE OF A MALE. IT INTERNALLY REFERS TO THE NOTION OF WHY AM I DOING THIS? DO I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH MY FEMALE BODY? WHY WOULD THIS BE?

THIS IS WHAT IT IS, IS WHAT IT IS, IS WHAT IT IS

THIS IS 1 IMAGE OF 5 WHICH PRESENTS VIOLENCE WITHIN RELATIONSHIPS. IT REFLECTS A VERY REAL OUTLOOK ON THE ISSUE, USING THE ASCETICS OF THE IMAGE TO HIGHLIGHT THE BEAUTY OF THE RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUBJECT MATTER TO REVEAL THE VIOLENCE WITHIN IT. IN TURN THIS EXPLORES THE NOTION OF THE DIFFICULTY W

All Your Letters

This is one of a series of fragments made by pulping a box of rediscovered letters from an abusive ex-boyfriend. The pulp was made into paper, then various images applied and finished by sewing some words extracted from the original letters. The series explores the cycle of abuse and dependency in r

Gender Confusion

This is 1 of a set of images that explores the issue of confused gender. It reflects the impact that society has up on people today. Why cant we accept who we are? why do we strive to be something different? Why can we not just be masculine females? or Feminine men?

the mannequin

The source for the word mannequin is the Middle Dutch mannekijn meanning ?little man?, ?little doll'. The picture was taken in Pigalle, Paris where sexual fantasies come to life in every form; the figure is obviously unreal (they even forgot to attach her right arm) but her sadness seem genuine. The

FoxyLady

Girls working under a mask, doing the oldest job in the world. All for a living an a better future.

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Woman bondage the brest

A Sweeper

This is two part of the same photo. It's nothing but one ordinary day for her, a sweeper in Shenzhen, China.

Congo, women victims of sexual violence

It has been the deadliest conflict on earth since the Second World War.Four million people died in the DR Congo in 8 years.Especially women and children suffer from daily violence.Millions are refugees living without proper health care,safe water or education. Villages are looted,women are raped.Mor

Manual Labour.

A young girl works late into the night at a garden in Southport as a favour to her mother.

CSI Hooker Crime Scene

The plight of the girl depicted in the scene highlights the lengths that some people, more commonly women, will go to to struggle to surrvive. The sex trade in general also epitimises extremes, from high class call girls who travel the world from one client to the next, to the poorest of society wor

Pandemic

Woman walking away from a graffiti on a wall related to the rejection of AIDS, Stone Town, Zanzibar. This remains us the situation of African women in front of HIV and AIDS ans also the 'gendered' impact of th is disease n Africa. This work is part of a series entitled 'Letters from Zanzibar' on t

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tranvestite in brixton on a sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.

Gina

Gina doesn't understand nor need to understand the difference in gender.. She acts and talks and thinks in such a way that to label her under a gender would make no sense... Her power comes from the understanding that she is stronger then any of us simply because she doesn't wait on or need to hea

Mr & Mrs Montaque

The story of a woman that fell in love with a man 10 yrs her senior, who was warn against him... Rather then leaving him, she made that man her husband followed him to Britain with no money. Lived in and through very racist times as well as sexist times. They raised 7 kids who then went on to have 1

Current collaborations

The Visible

The Visible is Ctrl.Alt.Shift’s voice on campus. A vibrant network of student activists across the UK, they act, stand up, and campaign creatively to call for an end to global poverty...

Previous collaborations

Comica

Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, will launch this November as part of the annual COMICA Festival with an exhibition of political comic work to coincide with the release of our new comic book...

Sadlers Wells

We are pleased to announce The English National Ballet School as the winning entry for the Ctrl.Alt.Shift Dance Competition.The five-minute piece was entered by George Williamson, who choreographed...

Baltic

Ctrl.Alt.Shift is teaming up with BALTIC for an exhibition around Conflict: War and Peace. Fifteen students will be mentored by the likes of Matthew Stone, T-Magic and Benjamin Wachenje with an...

Film Competition

Congratulations to Alexandra Monro + Sheila Menon who won the People's Choice Vote with their entry 'No Way Through'.