✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨
When I started my photography business in 2015, I had never seen or met another fat photographer. I wasn’t sure if it was even possible. (Because what we see around us tells us what is possible for people like us.) Now, of course, I know many fat photographers, both because I’ve deliberately sought out other people in underrepresented bodies, and because we fat folks are paving the way in our industries — but it was pretty intimidating not even knowing whether anyone would be willing to work with a photographer who was fat.
In my episode of Escape Diet Prison with Anne-Sophie Reinhardt @annesophiereinhardt, we look at this dynamic in detail, plus:
🦋 what it was like to grow up without a TV and how that influenced my body image
🦋 reclaiming the word fat for myself
🦋 being an average size kid and how my body changed during puberty
🦋 the time I went through the typical weight cycling that results from dieting
🦋 fat bodies, fashion and hiding your femininity
🦋 the urban myth of knowing someone who’s lost SO much weight and kept it off
🦋 my struggle with rejecting healthism and knowing that no body is “bad” because it doesn’t meet our culture’s standards of health
🦋 why it was such a big deal for me to learn about the social determinants of health
🦋 what we can learn from nature about our bodies and our roles on this planet
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Hi there! I'm Lindley. I create artwork that celebrates the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards at Body Liberation Photography. I'm also the creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Shop, a curated central resource for body-friendly artwork and products. Find all my work here at bodyliberationphotos.com.