Otago Polytechnic bachelor of fine arts third-year students
Emily Hlavac-Green (left) and Julia Johnstone with the
magazines they have produced. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
In Julia Johnstone and Emily Hlavac-Green's magazine,
they are the writers, the designers, the editors and the models
- never mind the magazine is called Guy Yearly and they are
women.
The two enterprising Otago Polytechnic photography students
have produced 52 copies of a 52-page men's magazine which
aims to showcase in an innovative way their work to date this
year in the bachelor of fine arts course.
Each page is the result of a day-long photo shoot where up to
300 shots were taken before one was chosen.
The third-year students dressed themselves up as men for many
of the pages and appear in almost every shot.
The writing and tone of the magazine is clearly tongue in
cheek, but aims to get their work out in a way different from
a normal exhibition.
Ms Hlavac-Green said they aimed to challenge the media's
manipulation of identity and toy with people's ideas about
gender.
School of Photography head Max Oettli said the two had
created a women's magazine last year, so they decided to
expand on the theme with a men's magazine this year.
Ms Johnstone said they had survived a late production hitch
to produce the $50 magazines in time for a launch tomorrow at
5.30pm.
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