9 Norfolk Street
Cambridge
CB1 2LD
Private View –
22. October 2015
5pm to 8pm
Exhibition from
19. October to 1. November 2015
11am to 5pm
Website: www.kerstinhacker.org
Link to series: http://www.kerstinhacker.org/CZmaternity
Kerstin Hacker
photographed the series Maternity Ward in the Vinohradsky Hospital in Czech
Republic and won the Emma/Agfa Prize for Female Photojournalists in Germany in
1993 with this series. The powerful and uncompromising images reveal a
different and provocative view of childbirth.
Vinohradsky
Hospital is a large teaching hospital in the centre of Prague and the maternity
ward dealt with over thousand births a year. The series gives an insight into
the busy department of the hospital and challenges the romantic narrative
surrounding childbirth.
Kerstin Hacker
studied at FAMU (University of Applied Arts in Prague) and is now Course Leader
for the BA Photography and MA Photography at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia
Ruskin University.
The show is part
of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. This year's Festival of Ideas theme 'Power
and Resistance' was an ideal time to show the work, as the work discusses
existing power structures in a maternity ward and how women can feel
disempowered during labour.
Changing Spaces
is an artist-led project in Cambridge that negotiates the use of empty
commercial property for use by artists for exhibition and development purposes.
