About Megan Carrie : : With Introduction by Bess Marine of Carrie Marine Photographics
"Megan Carrie is a fascinating individual. I've had the pleasure of working with Megan for quite some time now
and she never ceases to amaze me. She is the most dedicated, hardest working person I know. And that's just on the
outside! As you get to know her and her work you discover the amount of depth and spirit that both she and her art posess.
Her pieces are ones that can be revisted time and time again and with each viewing its as if the piece reveals a little more to you,
bit by bit. I applaud her dedication to her art and her craft, for even as crazy as life can be, she still makes the time to create art.
She is someone I have always been inspired by and feel honored to not only work with but consider a close friend." - Bess Marine
With a Bachelor's of Fine Art in Photography Megan has a firm grasp of the technical aspects of photography but more importantly on what it takes to create an image of meaning. She remains dedicated to her projects and sees them through from start to finish, even if it requires years of work. She is always striving to add to the knowledge she posesses through experimentation and staying current within this fast moving industry. Megan's most recent projects are ones entitled Dead Girls (which she will comment on below) and Circus, a project she is currently working on.
A Statement from the Artist : : On her project Dead Girls
With this body of work I am killing the victim inside every woman. In order to rid her of this role, I must kill, end, and delete those
ideas from her mind and body.
Visually women are supposed to be eye pleasing: attractive, skinny, and happy. By photographing women dieing barely clad, I am using societies notions from advertising of what a woman should wear to be sexy as a device to reinforce and break the stereotype. I attempt this by first showing how society views women, and then placing those ideas into images of death.
When I ask each woman that I photograph how she would like to die, she usually responds “in the bathtub”, “by overdose”, or “by hanging.” This is an indication that movies and television teach women that they need to die in a way that will preserve their beauty. Even these choices of committing suicide women are still the submissive role.
At first glance some of the pieces in the series may seem like traditional nudes, but once the viewer comes closer, he or she sees that the women appear to be dead. My intention is to provoke this interaction between the viewer and the photograph because it may cause him or her to question established stereotypes by using an established photographic convention. The viewer may then also come to understand the use of death in my photographs.