The photographs are mostly portraits of artists . . . painters, sculptors, writers, poets, filmakers, printmakers, photographers, designers, dancers, musicians, actresses and strippers. Others include women's liberationists, Aboriginal spokeswomen, activists, revolutionaries, teachers, students, drop-outs, mothers, prostitutes, lesbians and friends.

Each portrait is honest. Some are extended in the form of a sequence, with between four and sixteen images, which like an individual photograph reads as a "whole"; the interrelated "parts" flow from left to right.

The women are not intended as an elitist minority group, like a who's who; some are well known, others are not; each is of equal importance.

It is difficult to exist as an artist, being almost impossible to live off one's "art" alone. It is more difficult for a woman. And if her tool of creative expression is a camera, there is yet another struggle because photography is not fully recognised as being an art form in Australia.

There is so much beauty around us if only we could take the time to open our eyes and perceive it. And then share it.

Love is the key word.

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