'Me and Fashion' is an emotional constellation of fashion photographs made by Brigitte Niedermair over the past twenty years. They show how she continues to query – informed by her parallel creative path as an independent art photographer – and utilize her female vantage point to stretch out the conventional limits and biases of the fashion image system. Niedermair’s photographic collaborators and subjects tend to have trained as dancers and can activate their whole physical form to transform themselves into the material expression of the body as a language, framed by but independent from fashion. Niedermair’s women embody an “attitude of resistance” towards the camera, intentionally at odds with typically compliant fashion archetypes.
