Artist Model: Anne Noble

I studied photography in 2003-4 in Wellington NZ and Anne was a lecturer at the uni in another course. Her series ‘Ruby’s Room’ was new then and we discussed it in class. These were what came to find with the image I took of my daughter’s mouth in the initial set of photomontages. I have taken some more images of her with bubbles over her face I want to combine into another collage.

Noble has said that the photographs present a record of “…growing up through close scrutiny of a site where life happens - the mouth. The mouth that speaks, tastes, smiles, reacts, learns, loves, etc. They celebrate and magnify moments of growing up that are not normally celebrated, and they're deliberately not erotic, not romantic, not ideal, not perfect. …I was interested in overlooked moments that when depicted might create a discordant challenge to the adult romance with childhood as lost innocence…”