Christmas Dog Portrait Fund-Raiser

HI

Karen Moe Photography is holding a Christmas Dog Portrait Fund-Raiser from November 28th until December 24th.

Special Dog Christmas Portraits until December 24th!
(Christmas Themes or Classic Portraits)
1 hour portrait shoots includes 20 custom Greeting or Christmas Cards or two archival 8X10s.

A reduced price for christmas and 5% of shooting fee goes to The SPCA (protects domestic animals), Liberation BC (protects farm animals), The West Coast Wilderness Committee (protects wild animals) and The BC Health Coalition (protects human animals by protecting Universal Health Care!). You choose which animal protection organization you would like to donate to!

Call now to book a session!

604-787-1806
701-1701 Powell (The ARC)
Vancouver BC
www.karenmoephotography.com

Don't have a doggy? Don't live in Vancouver? Please, pass this on to your Vancouver Doggie friends to help support this great cause!

The Eastside Culture Crawl 2011

Hi all

I just emerged from the Crawl. Keep going to sleep and not waking up after weeks and hours of preparation and transforming my live/ work studio to look like I don't live here. Went well ... both the transformation and the event. Lots of people came through and many of them were interesting and interested. Always a good thing!

I debued Princess Vulva on Friday night (yes, I am also a political/ feminist photographer). People were either fascinated or horrified ... it's good when your critical art evokes extremes, so I was satisfied. Check out my Fine Art website for more info on Princess and other projects www.karenmoe.net.

Everyone loved the Dog Art. How can you not? Art: good. Dogs: good. I photographed dogs, kids and even two politicians on Santa's lap (it was voting day and they were moving through the building making sure we were all doing our civic duty).

I made a lot of new contacts and all and all a fabulous affair. Check out highlights ... the first is of me sitting in the Santa chair after debuing Princess Vulva. Next: Princesses. Then, the donation table (5% of all shooting fees at Karen Moe Photography goes to Liberation BC (protects farm/ factory farm animals), The SPCa (protects domestic animals), The West Coast Wilderness Committee (protects wild animals) and The BC Health Coalition (protects human animals by fighting to save our universal health care!). Next: Dog Art. And, Santa Chair. Finally, 3 gorgeous doggies and a swell Santa.

Bye for now!
















Karen.

Christmas Portraits Shoots for Animal Protection

Hi

On November 19th & 20th between 1 & 6 Karen Moe Photography is holding Christmas Portrait Shoots (Santa will even be there)! Proceeds go to The SPCA, The West Coast Wilderness Committee (wild animals), Liberation BC (farm animals) and The BC Health Coalition (human animals!).

The ARC
701-1701 Powell
604-787-1806

Check out the attached poster for more information.



Event sponsored by Columbia Costumes and is part of The Eastside Culture Crawl.
Karen

Eastside Culture Crawl Preview Show

Hi

Wednesday night (November 9th) I am showing some of my critical work (Princess) at the Cultch (1895 Venables in Vancouver). The show runs until November 27th. Come on down and check it out! See attached the invitation and one of the Princess pieces (Princess Glutton).

“Princess” comments on the current revival of stereotypical girlhood through the “princess phase” which is being marketed as a ‘natural’ part girlhood and, according to The New York Times book reviewer Annie Murphy Paul, “should qualify as an official development stage” [i]. However, is this contemporary princess craze that is being gobbled up by girls and parents alike a product of the disappearance of Feminism through the “preference for stereotypical girlhood … [and] the increase in anti-feminist ideas” [ii] or a “new sexism’? In her 2010 book “Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism” Natasha Walter states, “this hyper-sexual culture is getting fiercer and stronger, and is co-opting the language of choice and liberation”. [iii] Moe’s princesses deconstruct the origins and reinstituted normalization of the precious child in the economically privileged West. They are a documentation of the contradictions that can exist within the psyche of femininity that is informed by the patriarchal constructions of the romantic child: her hyper-feminine is playfully combined with irreverence and, exposing incongruity, work to complicate and transgress any reductionist and fixed notions of female identity.

[i] Paul, Annie Murphy “Is Pink Necessary?” The New York Times, January 23, 2011.
[ii] Dixon, Nicole “The Other F-Word: The Disappearance of Feminism from our Fiction” CNQ 80/ 2010 (2-17).

[iii] Walter, Natasha Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism London: Virago, 2010 (33).

Eastside Culture Crawl: Santa & Kids (Dogs or Human)!

Hi,

This year at The Eastside Culture Crawl Karen Moe Photography is hostessing "Giving Fun: Santa & your Kids Portrait Shoots" on November 19th and 20th from 1-6pm.

For only $25, you get a portrait of your dog or child (and/or) on a CD. $5 goes to a non-profit of your choice (The BC health Coalition that protects human animals, Liberation BC that protects farm animals, The West Coast wilderness Committee that protects wild animals and, of course the SPCA).

Christmas Cards and prints are also available.

Call in advance (604-787-1806) to book a time or just come down to The ARC (701-1701 Powell).

This is Santa & Teddy


Karen.