In the Dark

Medical history has demonstrated that the bodies of women, trans women, non-binary people and assigned female at birth (AFAB) people have been repeatedly overlooked and wrongly diagnosed. Incited by this lack of universal awareness, this ongoing series aims to ethically visualise health experiences that affect women and AFAB people, to make viewers aware of the emotional strain caused by them, and the need for more educational conversations around our health. 

Phoebe Wingrove began her ongoing photographic and mixed media series, In the Dark, in 2022 as a response to her diagnosis of high-risk HPV and CIN 2 abnormal cells in her cervix. Wingrove went on to do her own research through books and conversations with women and AFAB people where she found there was an overwhelming lack of knowledge and awareness of our bodies and certain health conditions, and from this In the Dark was created.