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Ixtzel Arreola
Rural health worker, scientist and passionate researcher.
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Thursday, 23 November 2017

The Woman Who Staged A Private Revolution From Her Studio

Back in the 1980s somebody in Norway found a box containing 440 glass plate negatives, along with a warning that read “private”. This box of negatives belonged to a woman called Marie Hoeg who in 1895 owned a photography studio. Customers came here to have their classic Victorian portraits taken — so far, nothing rare to it.

However, the real shoots took place once the shop closed at night, and those photos were the ones kept hidden for a century.

Marie and her friends gathered in her studio to discuss feminism, female rights and women's suffrage, and afterwards they poked fun at the stereotypes of the time, experimenting with gender, indulging in male vices and breaking each and every rule of female behaviour of the era — all in front of a camera.

Now, after all those years, her photographs can be found in the Preus Museum of Norway, to be enjoyed by the generation who now lives and enjoys the freedom she and many more fought for, without the pleasure of reward.

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