At Home With the Huntress
When Margaret LeJeune set out to photograph female hunters, she knew she wanted to avoid stereotypes and show the women as individuals.
“I didn’t want to make sensational photographs of blood and the kill. I’ve seen images like that of women hunters, where they’re field-dressing deer. I didn’t want to repeat things that had already been done,” she said.
So she decided to capture the women at home or at their hunting lodges instead. This, she writes in a description of her series, allows for a more intimate portrait and “questions the relationship between the domestic sphere, traditionally the women’s place, and the hunting world, typically a masculine realm.”
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