{"id":19325,"date":"2025-07-02T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/women-behind-the-lens-bending-over-backwards-for-luck\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:37:18","slug":"women-behind-the-lens-bending-over-backwards-for-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/women-behind-the-lens-bending-over-backwards-for-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Women behind the lens: bending over backwards for luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian artist and photographer Isabella Madrid explores the \u2018click to be saved\u2019 economy of hope in her project, Lucky Girl Syndrome<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Colombia \u2013 and online \u2013 has defined the way I create art: my identity has been formed by a country riddled with superficial and conservative values; a happy country but also one of the most violent; a country where men pray to virgins and kill the ones who are not.<\/p>\n<p>The internet felt like a safe space where I could be anyone \u2013 as a vulnerable young girl who felt out of place where I lived, it helped me define my personality and interests but it also alienated me from the real world and made me hyper aware of the way I looked and existed.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/isabellamadrid.co\/\">Isabella Madrid<\/a> <\/em><em>is a Colombian artist and photographer<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jul\/02\/women-behind-the-lens-bending-over-backwards-for-luck-isabella-madrid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6cfbfd9f1f9c7bf9b5d0cbd4644c74f6b04c6ec9\/0_0_6201_4961\/master\/6201.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1c8e808c8fe605909a535d720842c23b\" title=\"Women behind the lens: bending over backwards for luck\" \/>Colombian artist and photographer Isabella Madrid explores the \u2018click to be saved\u2019 economy of hope in her project, Lucky Girl Syndrome<br \/>\nGrowing up in Colombia \u2013 and online \u2013 has defined the way I create art: my identity has been formed by a country riddled with superficial and conservative values; a happy country but also one of the most violent; a country where men pray to virgins and kill the ones who are not.<br \/>\nThe internet felt like a safe space where I could be anyone \u2013 as a vulnerable young girl who felt out of place where I lived, it helped me define my personality and interests but it also alienated me from the real world and made me hyper aware of the way I looked and existed.<br \/>\nIsabella Madrid is a Colombian artist and photographer Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian artist and photographer Isabella Madrid explores the \u2018click to be saved\u2019 economy of hope in her project, Lucky Girl Syndrome Growing up in Colombia \u2013 and online \u2013 has defined the way I create art: my identity has been formed by a country riddled with superficial and conservative values; a happy country but also &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/women-behind-the-lens-bending-over-backwards-for-luck\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women behind the lens: bending over backwards for luck<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}