Girls with Fruit

“Girls with Fruit” is an exhibition of new portraiture by St. Louis photographer Tiffany J. Sutton.

Sutton’s lush sets, intimate tone, and chiaroscuro lighting nod to traditional ways that women have been portrayed throughout art history. But Sutton has masterfully changed the context. She gives her subjects meaningful control over their own depiction, and in the end her portraits show mature agents with varied interests and priorities.

Each woman is someone the artist personally knows. She treats them with dignity and coaxes them out of the everyday armor that womanhood demands. Underneath that armor is sadness and pain, but most commonly I see deeply rooted determination and pride.

I hope you will take the time to see these 50+ portraits hung together, since the force of their collective gaze will surely change you and, hopefully, give you the courage to take up more space in your own life.

See more at tiffjtiffsutton.online, or on instagram @tiffanyjoy1955