Women bare all for third Laura Dodsworth project

Artist Laura Dodsworth has photographed 100 women for her next Bare Reality book, which is all about womanhood.

For the book, entitled Womanhood: The Bare Reality, 100 women allowed Dodsworth to photograph their vulvas and talked about aspects of womanhood such as sex, birth, motherhood, menstruation, menopause, gender and sexuality.

“Photographing and interviewing 100 women about their vulvas, vaginas and being a woman has been fascinating,” said Dodsworth, who previously published Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their story (2015) and Manhood: The Bare Reality (2017).

“Most women have no idea what’s ‘down there'. Yet no body part inspires love and hate, fear and lust in the same way. It’s time for women to see how they really look, and long past time that we bared the truth about female experience. The process of creating these embodied stories of pleasure, pain, sex and birth has changed me - I feel freer, more in my prime, sexier and more powerful than ever. I’d love Womanhood to do that for other women.”

The book will be published by Pinter & Martin, which acquired world rights from the author, and proceeds will support The Eve Appeal, a charity that funds research into gynaecological cancers.

Womanhood: The Bare Reality will be published as a paperback original on 21st February next year, priced at £20.00, with an accompanying high profile publicity campaign.  Dodsworth will also next year appear in a Channel 4 documentary.