Yapci Ramos’s inquisitive eye reveals deeply moving stories as she turns her nonjudgmental gaze on each reality she comes across, invalidating the belief that “a prostitute is a dirty woman;” that nothing good can come of her.
Ramos made her first direct contact with the world of prostitution within a social reinsertion program for women who were, or had been, sex workers in the Canary Islands, Spain. With the series Mujer de la Vida (Canary Islands, 2010), Ramos began her portraits of the private lives of women with public bodies.
Yapci Ramos
Manoli Canta, Mujer de la Vida, 2010.
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Yapci Ramos,
Manoli, Mujer de la Vida
Series, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2010.
C-Print, Analog photography, 43 × 65 in | 109 × 165 cm.
Yapci Ramos,
Mujer de la Vida
Series, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2010.
C-Print, Analog photography, 43 × 65 in | 109 × 165 cm.