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Paula Dixon united states
title
Discarded Women
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entry description
This ongoing series explores the feeling all women have, at some point, of being thrown out or abandoned. It includes self portraits, but also features models including my own 67-year-old mother (seen here in a dog cage). Locations: Paris, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Marylandabout the photographer
Paula Dixon is a Los Angeles-based fine art photographer and graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and the Spéos Institute of Photography in Paris. Her work has won eighteen international awards and been shown at the Arles Open, the Whitney Biennial, and several regional galleries. Before she began a career in photography, Ms. Dixon got perfect SAT scores, did manual labor flipping houses, played professional poker in casinos and Hollywood home games, and wrote for television comedy shows like “Saturday Night Live.”back to gallery