The Other Side of Privilege is a personal project that attempts to raise awareness of the issues affecting men. As an Australian male I’ve been told all my life that I am advantaged, empowered and privileged but I would challenge that.
It is a subject rarely discussed let alone photographed. It is a story that is untold and always ignored.
Through my passion for documentary photography blended with fine art work and the use of accepted statistics, this project attempts to create a conversation that challenges the notion of male privilege.
Each image I have created is an artistic expression of my interpretation of each issue raised in this series.
Each image is timeless as defining a time period is sometimes difficult representing the longevity of time these social issues have existed.
Men are 20 times more likely to die through workplace accidents than women.
35.3% of men experienced family violence yet are excluded from domestic violence support.
Men wishing to enter female dominated workplaces such as nursing, teaching and hairdressing are not privileged to Affirmative Action programs unlike women.
Men are five times more likely to be involved in a road fatality.
58% of homeless people were male. (Australian Bureau of Statistics (2049.0 - 2016))
Almost 75% of suicides were male. (Australian Bureau Of Statistics - 3303.0 (2018))
Men make up 92% of the prisoner population. (Australian Bureau of Statistics (2019) - 4517.0)
More men die from cancer yet only receive a quarter of the funding that women’s health does.
Women are four times more likely to gain custody of their children. Only 18.2% of males had custody of their children.
