Colleen Mullins

For this work I scanned the pages as though they were photographic negatives—or X-rays of the texts— and worked with them to highlight certain text that resonated, then brought it back to the central issue of the case, Mississippi. I found Cavannaugh so infuriating!! We tend to read legalese for a point or skim it, so using the language visually made sense to me. I was so glad to read these pages and really ingest the gravity of what happened in the words of those who stole women’s body autonomy and those who sought to stop them. There are only nine.

Bio

Colleen Mullins is a photographer and book artist. She has garnered numerous grants and fellowships, including two McKnight Fellowships, four Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, and in 2020, she was a nominee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her project "Expositions are the timekeepers of progress". Additionally, she has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, the Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency, and In Cahoots Residency. Mullins' work is in the collections of the US Embassy in Moscow, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Southeast Museum of Photography, among others. Her publications include Photo District News (PDN), The Oxford American Eyes on the South, The New York Times Lens Blog, and numerous textbooks. She has authored articles for Afterimage and PDNedu. Recent exhibitions include Griffin Museum of Photography, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Georgia Center for the Book, and Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image with the Rolls & Tubes Collective. She lives and works in San Francisco.