Artist
Fanny Beckman
Artist
Artist Bio
(b. 1995, Malmö, Sweden) is a photographer who uses art to raise awareness of social injustice. She was four years old when she got her first camera and, ever since, photography has been an important part of her life. She studied Fine Art Photography at Gamleby School of Photography in her home country of Sweden.
Since 2016, Fanny Beckman has freelanced as a photographer and public speaker and has had numerous exhibitions highlighting subjects such as domestic abuse and mental health. She has exhibited in the Swedish Parliament (2017), at Gallery Foto Nostrum, Barcelona as one of the winners of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2019), at Landskrona Museum (2022), and at the South Bank Centre in London (2023). The latter was a commissioned exhibition by the charity Smile Train – to raise visibility for people born with clefts.
Artwork Description
Trojan is part of Fanny Beckman’s ongoing project, Take Back the Streets – created in response to the many cases of harassment towards women and non-binary people in public and as a means of helping those portrayed to reclaim spaces that they have associated with fear.
Each image is made collaboratively, with subjects selecting locations that make them feel vulnerable or uncomfortable. In this photograph, Trojan, a young London-based trans woman, chose a train station – a place where she has experienced physical and verbal abuse numerous times and where her womanhood has been questioned time and time again.
By shining a spotlight on Trojan’s experience, and that of many others, the artist not only provides a platform upon which they can proudly affirm their identity but also creates conversations about the reality of women’s daily lives.
