Photography project explores male entitlement and the female experience

After being given the prompt "Boundaries," photographer Allaire Bartel created this evocative set of images about the reality of being “a woman in a man’s world.”

photo by Allaire Bartel

photo by Allaire Bartel

photo by Allaire Bartel

photo by Allaire Bartel

Bartel writes:

I was particularly determined to express the idea that oppression of women does not just occur in extreme isolated incidents (violent rape and physical abuse) but can also be felt in lesser forms during the day to day.