Born Invisible

Sheila McKinnon's arresting images of young girls capture in a single frame, the complicated pattern of cultural entrenchment that narrates their lives - beginning at birth and following through into womanhood, generation upon generation. The beauty of her composition does not overshadow the rich iconography of place - the cultural truth-teller to the situational narrative revealed in her photography.
The duration that has defined cultural pasts spills onto and beyond the spatial reality and into our consciousness.
Her photography used as a visual platform, is the door through which to enter public consciousness; to inform our communities of the cultural tsunami taking shape around the globe in response to the treatment of girls and women - the disregard for and denial of their basic human rights, primarily.