Diego Samper and Valeria Fuqua

While trying to further research the idea of representing the ideas of masculinity and femininity through non representational photographs i came across an artist named Diego Samper. Although he is an artist who uses a wide variety of mediums among his collection is a a photographic collection entitles "Earth Exhibition". When looking at the images in this collection there were a couple that immediately popped out at me as being feminine in appearance. This one in particular:



"Untitled"

Source: http://www.diegosamper.com/earthEx.html

While Samper's were show a much more literal depiction of feminine symbolism i found it very helpful to see the types of images that catch my eye s being feminine


In the opposite sence when looking at more masculine imagery i found mostly very rough, industrial looking images. For example i came across the artist Valerie Fuqua's image "Heavy Metal in Gray":




Source: http://fineartamerica.com/photographs/tag/military

Again while neither artist is working in the exact way i would like to, it is interesting to see the types of imagery that are connected to the idea of male and female.