Jo Spence in collaboration with Rosy Martin. Two photographs mounted together by the artist on graph paper. Three photographs from this series were included as part of a major article...
Two photographs mounted together by the artist on graph paper.
Three photographs from this series were included as part of a major article by Rosy Martin and Jo Spence in the radical photography magazine Ten.8. Entitled "Photo-Therapy. Psychic realism as a healing art?", this substantial essay detailed the aims, methods and outcomes of their photo-therapy.
Three works from this series are presented in Ten.8 with individual captions that suggests the ways in which similiar images can embody different meanings. The head and torso view is captioned "His Desire", a view of a cleavage and biopsy scar is labelled "Her Trauma" and the third close-up image of the scar has the text "Their Scientific Research". Above them is the extended caption: "Shame work - in coming to terms with unnecessary mutilation through surgery and my fear of no longer being 'lovable', I map out the three discourses within which I perceive myself to be positioned". Rosy Martin and Jo Spence, "Photo-Therapy. Psychic realism as a healing art?" in Ten.8, no.30, p.3.
We are grateful to Rosy Martin for her assistance in cataloguing this work.