Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. Born into
a working-class London family, she worked for many years as a
studio photographer. Her political concerns led to documentary
photography. Soon after completing her degree in the theory and
practice of photography, she discovered she had breast cancer.
Through her struggle to come to terms with the illness, to find
non-invasive treatments and to share her experience with others,
she developed unique ways of using photography.
"Cultural Sniping" brings together a wide range of Jo Spence's
photographs and writings for the first time. Through images and
texts she explores complex issues of gender, class, health and the
body, and their impact on her understanding of personal history and
the construction of identity.
"Cultural Sniping" includes images from Spence's early work in
documentary photography and from her pioneering photo-therapy
projects, undertaken in collaboration with other photographers. In
her later work Spence faces up to the experience of illness and
dying, and "Cultural Sniping" reproduces work from her "Return to
Nature" and "Death Mask" series, in which she tries to come to
terms with the reality of death. Jo Spence's commitment to engaging
with personal experience, political understanding and critical
theory make her writing and photography a vital contribution to our
understanding of the politics of representation.
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