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Friday, February 03, 2006

Interesting photo essay 

I recently stumbled upon this interesting series of photographs by Melina Mara, titled Changing The Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate (the link takes you to her Flash-based website). A couple of photos from the series were particularly striking to me:

Needless to say, the above images are © Melina Mara. Some items for discussion:
Hat tip: the very interesting BAGnewsNotes, which featured this series a while back. The discussion on that blog, which pertains mostly to the photo on the right, addresses some of the above questions and is itself interesting (but be warned that not all comments are kind to the photographer's subjects).