Steph Wilson

Steph Wilson is a photographer, painter, and stylist based in Hackney, London. At only 23 years old, she has founded the arts collective Lemon People and the online vintage store ChinaPig, and she shoots for Dazed Digital and Vice's feminist channel, Broadly. Her work is vibrant and daring, capturing energetic yet precise moments of color and motion while exploring topics of gender, self representation, and culturally-imposed body expectations. In her artist statement, she wrote: "I feed off colour. What it can represent, how it dictates to us an agenda, how it expresses a mood or alters a current one is dizzyingly complex yet childishly innate. My current theme of work, which I try to merge into my editorial shoots, has found itself based around constructs; social constructs of etiquette, gender and beauty. Exploring the contradictions and non-truths of these topics and their fluctuating history and presentation is bamboozling, hilarious or just pretty sinister. How are we expected to keep up? Or are we supposed not to for consumerism's sake? Reconstructing these generic aesthetics from something deemed as gross or inappropriate is what currently drives me: making something acceptable out of the taboo, something ugly out of the "beautiful" (or vice versa), something obvious out of the unspoken, and hopefully presenting the realisation that none of it bloody matters to people that hadn't realised before."

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