Red Light Dark Room

Partnership with St Kilda Gatehouse
Participatory project
Self published book
2011

In early 2010 Gemma-Rose was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts grant to partner with non-profit organisation St Kilda Gatehouse to photograph and interview street sex workers, while teaching these women how to tell their stories visually. Participatory methodologies were employed to allow a more comprehensive picture to emerge, and to challenge the concept of who actually makes an image; who is the photographer and who the subject.

Red Light Dark Room; Sex, lives & stereotypes is an amalgamation of photographs, interviews, and written reflections, and was published in April 2011. All book proceeds go to St Kilda Gatehouse, which provides a safe community space, emergency aid and strong advocacy for street based sex workers.

Please contact St Kilda Gatehouse to buy the book