Sometimes I can’t quite grasp what my body is or how I feel about it. I’d love to romanticize and say I give it everything it needs, because it’s all I have. The complicated work one does with their own body is intimate. Through photography I can become intimate yet removed. I can see objectively what my body is. 

In this photograph, shot with a twin lens Rolliecord, I take a look at my body through the lens of exhaustion. I am thinking about how my body is “supposed” to be. How having large breasts is over sexualized. How having a full body is attached to many stigmas. 

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Shelbi Schroeder was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

She received her BA for Fine Arts in Northern California at Humboldt State University. She received her MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Masters of Arts in Teaching From Lewis and Clark College .

Schroeder received the Visual Arts Graduate Student of the Year in 2016.  She currently resides in Portland, OR where she teaches Art. 

Schroeder primarily works in Photography and Textiles. Her work centers around the body. 

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