Women, Weights and Empowerment Trilogy 1

Women, Weights and Empowerment Trilogy 1

Trilogy of photographic prints produced by artist Jemima Yong in collaboration with weight training coach Naomi Bines (Mimi). This series shares the theme of self acceptance.

The trilogy was produced so that the first image alludes to the preparation stage of a weight lift, the second, to ideas of strength and the final image, what weight training gives to their lives.

The resulting series of three images were selected collaboratively between the artist and Naomi Bines.

"In terms of training, lifting weights just changed my relationship with exercise, which then had an impact with the relationship I had with my body. So it always used to be about trying to lose weight, and chasing calorie burns, because of the way that exercise is kind of proposed to you as a woman. The theme of the whole thing is about transformation. The clothing, the confidence to wear less, is a way of translating that." Naomi Bines