Female Fighters explores the multiplicity of female identities, confronting the male gaze and reframing women’s presence in a traditionally male-dominated sport.
Photographed in the moments post-sparring, these female kickboxers inhabit a liminal space—no longer in the ring, yet not fully returned to the demands of their everyday lives.
These moments capture a fusion of opposites—aggression and vulnerability. It is in these instants that the female sitter 'returns to herself' after the adrenaline high of sparring. In this brief transition, each portrait gives the viewer a glimpse of this duality: defiance and submission, frustration and calm, dominance and passivity—ultimately revealing shifting ideas of masculinity and femininity.
During the research for this project, I carried out in-depth interviews with several of the fighters. I also travelled to competitions, documenting pre-fight warm-ups, conversations between fighters and their trainers, and recording the bouts themselves. From this material, I produced a video, a series of interview pieces, and a zine.
With support from Arts Council Funding, I was able to present the project through a series of self-curated installations and exhibitions across Brighton during Brighton Photo Fringe 2012. The Female Fighters exhibition included a map-based trail that invited audiences to seek out “fight posters” of the women, pasted throughout the city. These portraits appeared in shop windows, at bus stops, and along busy streets—temporarily transforming the city into their arena.
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