Thea Kaniewska

Hazel's bedroom

Thea is a London-based artist, documentary photographer and researcher whose work explores the intersections of gender, ecology, and lived experience. She recently completed an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography with Distinction at LCC. Inspired by the writing of feminists such as Ursula K Le Guin and Susan Sontag, Thea’s research into the double standard of female ageing, the re-presentation of menopause and the history of medical misogyny has informed her most recent projects. In her project, Night Pollinators, Thea turns her lens toward intergenerational relationships within her family, reflecting on her own experience of menopause, and the emotional terrain of living in the Anthropocene. Here, her practice combines documentary observation with symbolism and magical realism to explore both intimate, local narratives and wider universal experiences of womanhood and the theme of transformation.