not your 'mom's' soap bubbles

 

 

That is not a shot from Hollywood’s upcoming hot new science fiction flick. [Though maybe it should be.]  That is a photograph of a frozen soap bubble by Washington photographer Angela Kelly.

 

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Kelly’s images are starkly beautiful and unusual. So starkly beautiful and unusual they’re on the internet everywhere from weather blogs to the Washington Post. Which rocks. It’s amazing when a photographer gets that much coverage for a single series of photographs. It’s career changing.

—> :::see kelly’s flickr portfolio:::

 

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What is disturbing is, while I was trying to unearth the source of these images, I kept getting smacked in the face with “look what happens when a ‘mom’ takes pictures.”

Over and over again, that was a the headline. “Look what a ‘mom’ did.”

 

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I kept wondering, what if a woman is a rocket scientist and designs the space shuttle navigation system, but also has given birth? How are they going to report that? “Look what happens when a ‘mom’ puts a steering wheel in a Space Shuttle”?

 

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I have never seen a man who is a professional photographer and ALSO a parent described by reporters as “look what happens when a ‘dad’ takes out his camera” in national press coverage. Why? Because it’s fecking rude to totally discount someone’s professional accomplishments by diminutizing them with a child’s title for their parental status.

What next? Hillary Clinton is just “a ‘mom’ goes to Washington”?

I do not think so.

So.

For the slow kids in the back row?

 

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Dear Reporters: The correct title you are looking for is “professional photographer.”

You’re welcome.

 

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:::visit professional photographer angela kelly’s facebook page:::