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Volunteers needed to model for charity posters

Besi Besemar March 19, 2014

Jamie McCartney to produce new posters to raise money for Breast Cancer UK.

Jamie McCartney
Following the launch of his bras and boobs posters which he created to raise money for Breast Cancer UK (25% of sales will go to the charity), local artist Jamie McCartney is now working on his next piece and needs people in Brighton to get involved.
To that end he is having a drop in scanning day on Saturday, March 22, at the Warehouse Gallery, Gloucester Road, Brighton between noon and 6pm.
Jamie particularly wants people to bring a selection of bras, particularly red, white, blue, bright colours and patterned/striped/polkadot ones.
He is also producing a fundraising poster with knickers and a groin one as well (again with a cancer charity in mind) and wants to find people with pubic hair for that one. It’s so rare these days!
Finally he is doing a poster of boys in pants for testicular cancer. Grab your Calvin Kleins and go on down with the ladies…

People can do as few or as many scans of these as they like.

Anyone over 18 can go along, whatever their body shape, alone or with a group of mates (women only) and get scanned in a private area at the gallery.

Just turn up or contact Jamie directly via email: jamie@jamiemccartney.com

The posters will be created in the same way as his larger Physical Photography body portraits using a converted document scanner as the camera. The process slightly abstracts the body in a comical, cartoon-like way, producing images that are at the same time realistic but non-representational.

They are analogous in some ways to his famous Great Wall of Vagina. By having hundreds of images of different women in a grid they demonstrate human variety as a whole and do not objectify the individual. They neatly sidestep pornographic or erotic connotations, instead showing the body and underwear in a new and highly original way.

One in eight women in this country will get breast cancer. In what is described by some as an epidemic, it is increasingly understood that environmental factors play a huge part. Breast Cancer UK  works on a prevention strategy that Jamie believes is an excellent approach rather than focusing simply on a cure. He has no official connection with the charity. He just dreamed up this project and did it to raise money for them.

 

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