Woman: United

PERSONAL PROJECT

Creative Direction + Photography: Stephanie Pollak        Floral: Violeta Marozaitė + YLF, Kaiva Kaimins + My Lady Garden, Raluca Vicovan

Glam: Grace Hatcher, Maya Lewis, Lejla Dauti, Jeffrey Scott Film: Lara Maysa Ingram, Roxy van der Post

I founded the charity Woman United in 2019 to help empower women to use their unique voice in their community to create change. In the first series, or chapters as we called them, we focused on income instability and discrimination in the domestic and tourism industries. In the second, we worked with domestic abuse survivors.

Each woman’s portraits reflect her story in a deeply personal, and transformative, way and is coupled with a short film.

Domestic & Informal Workers

Chapter One

Two people wearing white clothing, with one person wearing a floral headdress made of greenery and succulents, holding a bouquet of tropical plants and flowers.
Person wearing sunflower wreath, eyes closed
Person with flower crown made of red and pink flowers, holding an iron adorned with similar flowers.
Woman holding floral arrangement with lipsticks
Smiling woman wearing colorful floral headdress holding teddy bear decorated with greenery.
Person with floral headdress, measuring tape, and scissors in hand.
Person wearing a hat made of purple and blue hydrangeas, smiling, dressed in white.
Woman with floral headdress, holding a broom decorated with roses
Person wearing a floral headdress and holding a bouquet of flowers and grass.
Person wearing a headdress made of red anthurium flowers and yellow daisies, holding a basket with matching floral arrangement, wearing a white outfit against a neutral background.

Our short film

Chapter Two

Domestic Abuse Survivors

Woman holding a bouquet of mixed flowers against a blue background.
Woman with brown hair, surrounded by vines and roses, blue background

Sam’s Story

Person wearing black sneakers standing among pink fabric and flowers on blue background, includes red high heel shoes and various pink and red flowers.
Person adorned with pink and red flowers against a blue background.

Lejla’s Story

Person sitting surrounded by flowers, typewriter, and scattered papers on a blue background.
Woman with floral headpiece, blue background

Erica’s Story

Person standing barefoot on moss with flowers and eggshells

Our Campaign, Hear Her Roar, on the London Underground

Person on an escalator with digital ads along the side.
Person holding a glass planter box with colorful flowers, a £10 note, a Visa credit card, and soil, wearing a blue shirt and multiple bracelets, blue background.

meet all the survivors

Woman with floral arrangement in hair on light blue background