Why Female Photographers Still Mimic the Male Gaze

Denisa Vitova
11 min readSep 25, 2019
Courtesy of Monika Scherer

Three years ago, I met a photography student Monika Scherer via Facebook. A mutual friend reposted her note saying that she is looking for girls in the area who would pose for her — she wanted to hone her craft as a photographer and build up a portfolio. I gave the repost a shy like and the rest is history.

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Denisa Vitova

BA in Literature and Linguistics, MA in Creative Writing. Published by The London Magazine, Ambit, Firewords, The Moth and others. Now works in media.