A photographer has snapped topless images of women - because she believes in fighting for feminist rights.
The incredible black and white images feature women of different shapes and sizes, ages and race, all posing with slogans inscribed across their bodies.
The work was the brainchild of Liora K, a photographer whose work ranges across portraits, food, fashion, and much more.
On her website she explains that she grew aware of a need for action on behalf of women in March 2012.
"When I started witnessing all the attacks on birth control, abortion rights, equal pay, and retractions of protections for survivors of domestic violence, I wanted to see an artistic response.
"I wanted to create a body of share-able and instantly understandable work that people could connect with and use to continue to spread the word: “women’s rightsare being sabotaged, but we are fighting back.”
Although Liora, originally from New Jersey, US but now living in Tucson, Arizona, says that she struggled to make an impact with words, she knew that pictures could do it.
"My photographs are direct translations of my thought process, unhampered by lost words. In this way, I find photography to be ideal for me as a way to seek change."
Speaking about her motivation, she says that the world around her continues to shape her views.
"I’m a feminist because I can’t live in a world where I am defined, limited, and categorised by my genitalia, where women are objectified beyond reason, where rape culture thrives, and where these injustices (and more) are so blatantly ignored and denied by so many people.
"I believe in the power of intersectional feminism. Even though I still have a lot to learn, I think that by going together, we can go far.
"I do my best to incorporate as many different aspects of women’s struggles in my work – I want everyone to see themselves in my photographs.
"The oppression and dehumanisation of women affects everyone, and I strongly desire to represent that.
Liora says that the project has helped her personally, "not only... to express my anger towards the amount of power that patriarchy wields, but has been an incredible vehicle to understanding parts of feminism that I hadn’t previously been conscious of."
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