Paige Megan Hawley

Based in London, Paige is a Photographer, Curator and Activist.

Paige's work is driven by her experience of when she was raped, making her want to act for a social change.

She captured her emotions 'Turning a Negative impact into a Positive' through the concepts of the photographic development of film. The projects expanded from this theme and lead onto many exhibitions, this is when Paige became interested in curation and she also became the founder of Nasty Women London, which later lead on to Nasty Gallery, a platform for unrepresented women in the arts.

The photographs from the self documentary series ‘The Aftermath’ and ‘Stop’ speculate similarities within the idea of The Handmaids

Tale, with how women are subjected to sexual violence, abuse and misogyny.

Paige’s work reinforces the statements within the novel of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, by revealing the after effects of how she dealt with rape, and the whole court process. During this, Paige used photography as a coping mechanism, and a form of expression.

“ Photography is a way of feeling and expressing. Capture the

emotion, develop from the negatives, stop the process, move

forward by fixing the situation with a piece of art”

-Paige Megan Hawley