kenrick bobb photography

 INVITATION TO SUBMIT ARTICLES FOR UPCOMING PUBLICATION

 

It is said that a woman is born into the world to travail; to never find complete and total happiness in her self or others. It is a hard life punctuated sometimes with joy, sometimes overburdened with sorrow, but, it is a life that womankind has endured through the centuries with grace and strength. Whether being subject to mental or physical abuse or allowing herself to be made a slave to the absolute pressure of becoming the beauty that the world projects, thinking that she is somehow inferior to the faces smiling up at her from the covers of magazines on display at a newsstand, the search for inner beauty is one that hardly a woman can come through unscathed. But, when she emerges on the other side of her journey in finding this beauty, the scars that she has obtained hold her memories and the absolute power to tell her story to all who can see them. Beauty is what one chooses to make it and is not defined by the world.

 As a professional photographer/photojournalist, now based in New York. ( With more than twenty (25) years in the business. ) I have worked with women from all walks of life who have battled at one point or another with this issue of defining beauty. Because this particular theme is so prevalent I chose to dedicate my time and effort to document this struggle through photography with the hope that other women, through viewing the pictures and reading the stories of a selected few, can themselves find the path of self-discovery and define what beauty is. This documentation effort is in the form of a two-part book aptly titled The Inner Woman. The book is meant to give inspiration to and provide a source of encouragement to women from all walks of life. I am of the firm belief that a woman does not need to make herself into a supermodel due to the standards set by the world through the media to be considered beautiful. Beauty comes in all shapes, forms, cultures, colors, genders, nationalities, and sizes. In this work a battered woman can tell of her ordeal and how through it all she found her own beauty alongside a young adult who is telling of her own point of self-actualization through pictures and words. It is my fervent hope that through this work, women every where will be given a source of strength and a knowledge that there are others who are surviving the search for beauty, and that a selected few have lived and are living to tell their stories.

Although my research has taken me to several countries and institutions such as yours in order to record the experiences of several women, given the time-line of this, my first publication, I am unable to physically visit each organization. I therefore humbly ask that we tap into the power of technology as a medium for persons from your organization to submit their stories and words of inspiration. I will therefore like to invite women from your institution (from every level) to put pen to paper, (or fingers to keys) to share with the world their concept of “the inner woman” whatever this definition may be.

 

Criteria are as follows:

• I will not use the real name of the writer if this is desired.

• Submissions should be in the form of an actual letter, essay or poem.

Each must tell of that person’s idea of “beauty” and their individual journey/ struggle/ hardship that allowed or made their inner woman stand out or rise up.

• Submissions should also be between one thousand to two thousand (1000-2000) words in length.

• The deadline has been extended for a date to be announced soon.

Send your submissions or questions to innerwoman@kenrickbobb.com

• Not all stories received will be used. If an individual’s story is used as a part of the final material, the writer will receive a complimentary copy of the book and will be invited (at their own expense) to the public premier of The Inner Woman.

 

Thank you for your consideration and for any assistance that you, your colleagues, and the persons involved at your institution can provide.  Also, please feel free to contact me at any time with regards to this project via the aforementioned avenues.