For this project, I wanted to link my survival with this project. So the idea was to look at “if female Empowerment is fake/artificial/produced.
Focus Topic: Harvey Weinstein’s Case
I took that idea and applied it to the Harvey Weinstein case because his case was the catalyst to the “Me Too Movement. The idea of it wasn’t for this man in power getting exposed for his abuse than the movement wouldn’t have gained as much friction as it did.
Initial Ideas for photomontages:
With these thumbnails, I wanted the imagery to be on the nose. To be really clear on what I’m talking about because of how sensitive this topic is.
Photomontages
This piece was based on some of the women that targeted Harvey Weinstein.
Rose McGowan, who initially started the wave in 2016-2017 to take down Weinstein in a series of tweets that exposed him of sexually assaulting her.
Courtney Love, publicly mentioned on a red carpet that “If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a dinner party don’t go”. This was way before the “Me Too Movement” but it was a well-known secret that Harvey Weinstein abused his power to sexually assault women in the industry.
Tarale Wally & Miriam Haley are 2 out of the 6 women that testified against Harvey Weinstein in court and ultimately got him.
I think with this piece I wanted to be a reversal so instead of it being Harvey Weinstein targeting women it would b the other way around. Women targeting him for all the harm that he’s done.
This piece is a visual representation of how Hollywood already knew what was going on about Harvey Weinstein but continued to be silent because of how powerful he was. The New Yorker describes the whole situation best say it was an “OPEN SECRET”.
This piece references the whole fact that during 2016-2017 more and more news started to come out of Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct so to destroy all these allegations. Harvey Weinstein acquired this group to spy on women. Like Rose McGowan and kill any forthcoming stories.
For this photo montage, I wanted to allude to the idea of ‘what’s behind the door’ kind of like what happens in the dark mentality. During 2015 NYPD operated a sting operation against Harvey Weinstein. Getting audio like this, “ON EVERYTHING IM A FAMOUS GUY” and “IM USED TO THAT”. I wanted to visual how trapped Ambra Battilana must have felt during this whole situation.
Aisha Beya 