Pissing Women 1995

Pissing Women is a series of photographs created in 1995, two years after graduating from LCC's BA(hons) Photography Course, while working part time as an administrator at the Financial Times Newspaper. In 2023, the series, which was featured in The Guardian Newspaper as one of the images to have 'changed the way we see women' was published for the first time in book form - the final 3 images reproduced alongside outtakes from the original photo shoots.

Quote from the press release / blurb:

"In 1994, Sophy Rickett began photographing herself and her friends pissing on the streets of London. Shot at night, dressed up in office wear, a bodily function usually performed discreetly by women was staged openly in public; an act normally reserved for men. Roaming London’s financial district after hours, the resulting images – deadpan and performative – would become Rickett’s seminal series Pissing Women, now published in its entirety by Climax Books for the first time.

Pissing Women is the inaugural publication of Climax Books and comprises 26 photographic plates. It features a foreword by Anne Turyn, a New York-based photographer and the founder of the cult prose periodical Top Stories, and a long-form interview with Sophy Rickett."

The book was edited by Isabella Burley and designed by Christopher Lawson.

40 pages, 21 × 27cm
ISBN: 9781399964036

• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
• https://sophyrickett.com/blog
• https://i-d.co/article/sophy-rickett-pis...
• https://dorrellmerritt.co.uk/Sophy-Ricke...