Venus Blood is a photographic essay that investigates the role of women in art and science throughout history — those anonymous, ignored or forgotten voices whose faces we rarely see. Through allegorical portraits, often without showing the face, the series evokes the emotions of women who struggled to claim their place, in life and after.
Mostly shot in black and white, with selective use of color to signify those rare women who transcended their time, the work finds power in subtlety. It doesn’t document facts, but rather explores feelings: absence, recognition, memory, invisibility.
The book is structured in four chapters:
1. Women and Art
2. Women and Science
3. The Vase Woman
4. The Inner Struggle
Here, portraiture becomes metaphor. The women represented are not named; instead, they stand in for many whose contributions went unacknowledged. Silence, invisibility, and presence become the material of the photograph.