Cathy Ross is a documentary photographer and storyteller living on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land in Brisbane, Australia, exploring themes of life, death and BDSM through a queer, autistic and ADHD lens. She holds a Bachelor of Photography (Honours) from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her major bodies of work include 'body rites' (2018), an exploration of women in BDSM through a feminist lens; 'Women of Vanuatu' (2018), a series of portraits and interviews of Ni-Vanuatu women discussing climate change and feminism; 'Incompatible With Life' (2020), a testimony of grief through poetry and photography made in collaboration with poet Jane Hightower; and 'the bare series' (2018-ongoing), a series of nude portraits presented alongside textual excerpts from interviews with participants exploring different aspects of the embodied human experience.
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