TIFA 2025 Fine Art / Collage

Unbroken: The Feminine Homeless

  • Prize
    Bronze in Fine Art/Collage
  • Photographer
    Catherine Hawthorn
  • Photo Date
    2025

“UnBroken: The Feminine Homeless employs collage as a critical methodology to interrogate the visibility of women experiencing homelessness. By layering photographic portraiture with paint and material fragments, the work situates marginalized femininity within broader discourses of erasure, resilience, and identity. The project foregrounds the tension between social invisibility and embodied presence, reframing these women not as subjects of deficit but as agents of endurance and complexity.”