Kiss it! Book launch with Abbie Trayler-Smith.
Thu, 29 Jun
|Tiverton
Abbie Trayler-Smith’s new photo book explores the ins and outs of a fat life through a neutral lens, documenting a young woman called Shannon during her teen years and early twenties
Time & Location
29 Jun 2023, 18:30 – 20:00
Tiverton, 25 Gold St, Tiverton EX16 6QB, UK
About The Event
Local photographer Abbie Trayler-Smith, has produced her first book 'Kiss it!' and is holding her first launch party here at Liznojan. Second launch party will be in London, so if you're local, now's your oppourtunity.
Documentary-style photographs spanning the teenage and early twenties of one subject, a young woman called Shannon, are interspersed with items from Abbie Trayler-Smith’s youth – memories relating specifically to her struggle with being overweight as an adolescent. ‘FAT!’ is emblazoned in Tipp-Ex across her old school book, following a photo of a plus-size, teenage Shannon trying on a dark-red prom dress. Kiss It! explores the ins and outs of a fat life through a neutral lens, by combining the dark moments of Trayler-Smith’s younger years with over a decade of pictures following Shannon’s experience of growing up as an overweight person.