Eve Lamb
Right now, the foyer of Castlemaine’s Vintage Bazaar at The Mill has a sturdy lineup of women wielding power tools.
Fortunately, the auditory impact is minimal as the women in question are all the photographic subjects of award-winning sharp shooter, Zo Damage, known to many for her work photographing rock stars – often from a mosh pit perspective.
Here however, Damage has applied her talent for powerful image-making to celebrating and acknowledging local women who have chosen to shoulder those trades more traditionally regarded as the bastion of their brothers.
Shoulder to shoulder in her black and white images, here, are women sparkies, mechanics, builders and jills of all trades.
Launched earlier this week, the new Women in Trades exhibition is the result of a partnership between Damage, HALT (Hope Assistance Local Tradies) and Women’s Health Loddon Mallee.
“It makes me feel proud to be part of this group of 12 women,” says one of the central Victorian tradeswomen featured, Jaxx Irwin of Daisy Hill.
“I started my engineering as a navy engineer 20 years ago,” Jaxx told the Mail during… Read more in the Mail
