The Waiting

"The Waiting" is a photographic and audio essay which follows the pursuit of female hunters and their intimate relationship to the land, to their harvest and to each other. Shot between Southern France, Louisiana and Mississippi, the women take us on a meditative journey from stillness to the irreversible act of killing. Like the goddess of the hunt, they embody the tension between the protector and the destroyer. From sunrise to sunset, they disappear in bayous, rice fields and duck blinds for hours on end in the quest of their prey.

While hunting does not require a masculine body, huntresses are largely invisible in historical and contemporary depictions. Often, the responsibility and credit for survival has been bestowed upon men, with women relegated to passive roles as gatherers. But in Roman mythology, Diana, goddess of the hunt, fertility and the moon, transcended the gendered distinction society has since created. "The Waiting" explores the mystical trails between ancient myths and the 21st century, the relationship between killing and nurturing through the hunting sisterhood that rejects traditional roles and embodies the predator in a society that often views them as prey.