J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Odette England

A manual on female dairy cows provides a portal for Odette England to unearth the latent truths of her girlhood, formed in the deeply gendered community of family-run dairy farming. Sequencing hauntingly mysterious images with succinctly insightful text, England explores conventions, offering an expansive and empowering response in their place. In this book group, Odette England discusses, among other things:Listening and living with your workMaking photographs as a conversation - before having a context or conceptual frameEmploying sincerity An economy of text and imageMaking in community and the importance of collaborationColor as character“A vertical experience of a horizontal wish” Non-conforming femalesPhotos as slippery storytellersGifts & OmensReferenced in the episodeSexual Politics of Me - Carol J. AdamsGreen Eyes - Marguerite DurasOrdinary Affects - Kathleen StuartNausicaa of the Valley of the WindLightworkSaint Lucy PressCara BuzzellThe Savage Detectives - Roberto BolanoDecasia - Bill MorrisonOdette England Website | InstagramEngage with J. Sybylla Smith  https://www.jsybyllasmith.com Instagram @jsybylla and Facebook @j.sybylla.smith

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