Sandy Edwards

**Sandra Edwards** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1948) mai daukar hoto ce ta Australiya.  Edwards ta ƙware a aikin daukar hoto da sarrafa hoto. An haife ta a Bluff, New Zealand a 1948 Edwards ta isa Sydney a 1961.  Edwards ta kasance a sahun gaba na ƙun giyar masu daukar hoto masu ci gaba a cikin 1970s da 80s waɗan da aka kori don ƙirƙirar ayyukan rubuce-rubucen da suka rubuta yanayin zaman takewa kuma suna da niyyar canza waɗan nan yanayi. Ayyukan Edwards sun samo asali ne daga ra'ayoyin mata da kuma wakilcin mata na kafofin watsa labarai da kuma hotunan al'ummomin Aboriginal a Ostiraliya. 

## Ilimi
Edwards ta karanci ilimin halin dan Adam a cikin 1969 a Jami'ar Sydney NSW. Ta ci gaba da karatun fim a Slade School of Fine Art a London tsaka nin 1972 da 1973. 

## Ƙaunar mata
Edwards, tare da Helen Grace, Victoria Middleton da Lyn Silverman, sun kafa kungiyar "Blatant Image". Tare sun hada kai kan ayyukan daukar hoto wadanda suka yi nazari kan wakilcin kafofin yada labarai na mata tare da kirkiro sabbin ayyuka wadanda suka bamban ta wadan nan akidu. 

Sha'awar Edwards game da siffan ta mata ta fara ne tun tana matashiya; tattara hotuna daga mujallu a ƙarshen 1960s, ta fara ganin nuna bambanci a cikin hotunan. Wani tushe shine fina-finai na shekarun 1930 da 1940. Edwards ta kasance tana sha'awar waɗan nan duniyoyi na fantasy musamman gina asalin jima'i na mace a cikinsu.

Wadan nan tasirin sun tura ra'ayoyin mata a matsayin babban batu na ayyukan ta, ya zama mafi bayyana a cikin *A Narrative With Sexual Overtones* (1983), wanda ya yi magana game da ra'ayin cewa ba za a iya samun jin dadi daga wakilcin mata ta hanyar watsa labaru ba, musamman fim.  Ana ganin aikin a matsayin gada ta tarihi tsakanin Marxist-feminist-semiotics da abin da zai zama postmodernism na mata a cikin 1980s. 

## Sanannen ayyuka
Edwards ta shiga cikin ɗimbin nune-nunen nune-nunen hoto a duk lokacin aikinta. Fitattun nune-nunen sun haɗa da Me ke cikin fuska? : Abubuwan Dubawa, AGNSW (2005-6); Dangantaka na Kusa, ACP (1998); da Inuwar Haske: Hoto a Ostiraliya 1939-1988, NGA (1988). Aikinta na bacci na 2005-2006 an nuna shi akan allo na Melbourne. Jikinta na *Aljanna wuri ne* da aka yaba sosai a cikin al'ummar masu daukar hoto. 

## Aikin CSR
Aikin daukar hoto na CSR (1978) wani rukunin ayyuka ne da aka ba da izini wanda ya duba batutuwan da suka shafi zamantakewa da dama gami da ayyukan mata biyu a wurin aiki da bambance-bambancen al'adu a wuraren aiki.  Yawan cin masu daukar hoto na Australiya sun shiga cikin aikin, ciki har da Max Dupain, Ed Douglas, Bill Henson da Debra Phillips. Kowane mai zane ya ɗauki hanya daban-daban ga aikinsu.

Edwards ta nuna halin gajiya da maimai tuwar yanayin aikin mata ta hanyar jeri-jefi na mata masu gudanar da ayyukan su na yau da kullun. An dauki hotunan a cikin matatar sukari kuma an yi musu lakabi da "cube 192", "Sugar da safe", "4:00pm lokacin komawa gida...", "Sook daga Koriya ne", "Beti da Maria", da kuma "Beti daga Yugoslavia ne, Sook na Koriya." Lakabi da aikin da kansu sun jaddada kasan cewar wurin aiki ga mata da kuma kalubalen al'adu.  Kowane ɗayan ayyukan ta an haɗa shi da jerin hotuna da aka buga azaman kwafin azurfa na gelatin a baki da fari. 

## Aljanna wuri ne
*Aljanna wuri ne* (1997) wani rukunin aiki ne wanda Random House ya buga tare da haɗin gwiwar marubuci Gillian Mears . Hotunan Edwards sun kasance tare da abubuwan tunawa da Mears marasa almara na yarinta. Aikin ya duba cikin ƙuruci ya akan faffadan bakan. Hotunan Edwards sun nuna rauni da rashin laifi na wata yarinya a gabar tekun Kudu, New South Wales yayin da take ci gaba daga yammar taka zuwa girma.  Kazalika kasan cewar aikin da aka buga, an baje kolin hotunan a matsa yin nunin solo da aka buga azaman kwafin gelatin baki da fari na azur fa da aka nuna a Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia, 23 Fabrairu zuwa 31 Maris 1996. 

## Aiki na yanzu
Sandy Edwards har yanzu mai daukar hoto ce wacce ta goge sama da shekaru ashirin a fagen.  Ta kuma tsara manyan nune-nunen hotuna masu yawa, ciki har da Filin Jirgin Sama na Sydney 2000 Art Project, da Sydney Looking Forward; Art da game da (2003). 

A cikin 2012 Edwards ta buɗe filin Nunin ArtHere a Redfern, wanda ta gudanar da nune-nunen nune-nunen sha bakwai a cikin shekarar farko. Har ila yau, ta ƙaddamar da Stills Gallery a Sydney tun 1991,  sanannen wuri kuma ingantaccen filin nuni wanda ke wakiltar masu daukar hoto kamar Trent Parke, Anne Ferran da William Yang. 

Baje kolin Edwards na baya-bayan nan mai taken "Ba za a iya ƙaryatawa ba" wani nuni ne na baya-bayan nan da aka nuna a Stills Gallery a cikin 2004. An harhada baje kolin da manyan bugu na hoto na nau'in C. An harbe silsilar cikin launi kuma an ɗauki hotunan tsawon shekaru goma. Nunin ya ba da haske mai haske game da rayuwar Edwards da kuma rayuwar waɗanda ke kewaye da ita. 

## Ganewa
Aikin Edwards ta sami kyaututtuka daga kungiyoyi masu zuwa:
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**Sleep Late*, Yarras Edge Urban Project, MIRVAC Docklands, Melbourne - 2006
* Out of Time Grant for *Welcome to Brewarrina* - Australian Council Grant to Budapest with Indigenous Artist - 1991
* *After 200 Years* project - Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Commission - 1988
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*Parliament House Photography Commission - 1986 
* Grant for Blatant Image - Woman Photographers Group - 1981