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BIFA 2025

The Weight She Shed

  • Photographer
    Jolana Hollister
  • Agency / Studio
    The Photography Experience

This photographic series explores the emotional and physical unbinding of a woman from the societal expectations that have long confined her. Through a sequence of raw, intimate images, we witness her journey from silence to voice. The cocoon she inhabits — delicate yet suffocating — is marked with the phrase “be a good girl,” a haunting echo of the messages women are taught from girlhood. Each image captures a visceral moment of resistance, emergence, and ultimately, self-reclamation. This series reveals the painful, yet necessary process of breaking free from ingrained expectations.

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