As part of the Global Open Call “Women by Women”, PhotoVogue has awarded three grants to outstanding participants: Myriam Boulos (Lebanon), Alice Poyzer (UK), and Laila Annmarie Stevens (USA).
We had a conversation with Alice Poyzer, who received the Vision Grant, awarded to an artist with a compelling and unique perspective.
Alice Poyzer is a British photographer, based in Lincolnshire. In her work she mixes documentary, portraiture and constructed imagery, centring her practice around the desire to be seen and heard as a neurodivergent woman.
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She discussed with us her project Other Joys, in which she explores the intense passion that neurodivergent people experience toward their special interests. Her work teeters between excitement and joy, and a veil of uneasiness — the raw light of the flash acting as a signifier of the discomfort often felt by neurodivergent individuals. The photographs are deeply sensorial, reflecting the comfort the artist needs in order not to feel overwhelmed. Other Joys alternates between self-portraits, each distinct from the next, capturing the moods Poyzer adopts to fit in, and repetitions of symbols that represent her need for routine. Poyzer’s work depicts, with both strength and delicacy, her experience of autism — still too often overlooked and belittled in society — without shying away from discomfort or eeriness, instead transforming them into self-acceptance and understanding.
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