Lesbians’ hands are a tremendously erotic motif, and flowers are a lovely metaphor for female bodies but these photographs also became a sign of what could not be said, what could not be seen in the lesbian community without inciting shame.” Corinne remembers that she started shooting erotic pictures of hands and flowers for the feminist press because they simply wouldn’t publish her studies of female nudes or genitals.

Susie Bright writes in her introduction for Nothing But The Girl: explicit and frank in nature, her work was frequently met with apprehension and censorship for daring to depict our truths as lesbians when the movement for our rights was still in its infancy – not just from the straight world, but within the lesbian world as well. her photography was decidedly lesbian and constructed for the pleasure of other lesbians, demonstrating our desire, our affection, the complexity of our relationships and the deep need we have for each other that overcomes stigma, oppression and censure in order to be realised. Tee Corinne was a pioneering lesbian fem photographer and artist whose work rocked the 1970s and helped create new materials of fantasy and eroticism for lesbians everywhere.Ī passionate lesbian feminist, her photography was imbued with the tenderness of her love and respect for women in all our forms – she consistently included women of colour, women with disabilities, fat women and older women in her work, at a time when this was even rarer than it is today.

Labiaflowers by Tee A. Corinne