Madeline Zappala is an interdisciplinary artist from Boston, MA. She received her Bachelors of Arts in American Culture Studies from Vassar College in 2012, where she focused on art history and literature. She then went on to get her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Primarily working in photography, Madeline’s practice is concerned with contemporary practices of self imaging and the intersection of self with the collective conscience. Today we share images from her series, No Man’s Land. A selfie is a catalyst for expanding one’s own thinking about identity, and no different from any other photograph, at the same time. From early on in its history, photography has been used as a tool to understand how physical appearance intersections with larger questions of identity. People have pushed the boundaries of what a photograph can depict about a person, but the one thing that a photograph will always do is capture the surface of what is in front of the camera. The banality of selfies, mixed with a larger cultural disdain for …
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