Hannah Rosales Reviews Lee Grant

Lee Grant is an Australia photographer who is most widely known for her investigation of migrant identity taking place in the suburbia of Australia. Her photographs consist of a color and formal like portraiture that inspects identity integration and landscapes that are inhabited.

In her series 'Sister Love,' Lee explores the relationships between sisters and how they can endure through physical and possibly emotional means. As one of three girls herself, Lee is interested in the "fraught, but beautiful nature of this relationship." She explores how many times, sisters can resemble one another through gestures and other means. "For better or worse, blood ties can be subverted, contested, resisted and negotiated but our experiences of sisterhood can also form the very heart of who we are and the way in which we choose to navigate the world."

The two photographs I would like to compare are the two sisters in the white dresses and the two sisters in the pink dresses. Both have similarities that the younger sister is clinging on to the older sister. Digging beneath the surface, the older sister may have some indignation about their relationship in general while the younger sister has this innocent look on her face. 

The second photographs depicts the younger sister holding her older sister's hand. Contrary to the first photograph, this photograph shows the younger sister looking up to the older sister in admiration, while the older sister looks proud. I also find it very interesting that in both photographs, the sisters are wearing the same color. In fact, in every photograph of the series, the sisters in each photograph are wearing the same color except in one photograph. This may have a deeper, symbolic meaning.