When tasked by our professor with selecting two images, and supporting one as art and being against the other, I found many of my male classmates seemingly offended by a selfie of Kim Kardashian. Many selected this image as their “against”; Thus ensued the tirade on Kim Kardashian. Not on her photo, but instead, on the woman herself. I listened to that day in class back, thankful for technology and its ability to keep a record, and included statements made by my male classmates in this work.

As a 24-year old woman, sitting in a male-dominated class, these comments did not feel like a critique of an image, although that was the assignment, but instead like a critique on one woman. To me, it is on all women. When you tear one woman down, you take all of us down with her.

My work, All Men: On One Woman, appropriates Richard Avedon’s fashion images from the 1960’s, and pairs them with the comments made by my male classmates about Kim Kardashian. This work explores how no matter how successful, smart, or beautiful women are, women will never escape scrutiny.