Amber Joy

Amber Joy is a photographer whose work for Gritted Teeth speaks to the contradictions of growing older as a woman of colour. Her three untitled prints refuse the narrative of fading — instead they articulate invisibility as freedom, the weight the world places on women as something that marks rather than diminishes, and ageing as a form of arrival. The images are intimate close-ups of hands and skin, monumental in scale, speaking of time carried with dignity. Joy's work insists that older women of colour do not disappear; they become more fully themselves.