https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/ec44b4b3650ad47ad7926049711b552b.jpg 8c69f62cd744c6bee0ed2a48bc22d1df Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ryan Lonergan: THE GAP Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Black and white photograph of two different women, one sitting on a chair, the other full face to the side. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/d887ab05adb1b6251a1011f59c3e4162.jpg 3b7a86062329b6fc4b4b4221d808e67a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ryan Lonergan: THE GAP Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Black and white photograph of the same woman, shot twice, one right side up the other upside down. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/f632ac847adec17426c0d5f343b82389.jpg 94e355f655cd14d1f14d8bec61899081 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ryan Lonergan: THE GAP Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Black and white photograph of two different women, blur motion, both of them sitting looking towards the camera. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource THE GAP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lonergan, Ryan Abstract A summary of the resource. When I photograph, I am in control. I direct, frame, and construct the image, authority that feels otherwise unavailable to me. The women I photograph are not destabilized subjects or objects of envy. They are mirrors, points of tension where I am trying to understand my own relationship to identity, visibility, and gendered expectation. My work is shaped by longing and control, by the desire to be taken seriously, to be seen as a woman, and by the feeling that this visibility has never come naturally. I have built my identity around humor, masculinity, and performative confidence as strategies for authority, while the women in my images seem to occupy their presence effortlessly. Their gestures, gazes, and stillness become material through which I explore femininity as something observed, constructed, and framed. Through fragmentation, layering, and repetition, I return to these subjects as both observer and maker. The images sit in the space between watching and constructing, between admiration and distance. They are attempts to hold onto something that feels visible yet unreachable, to examine how identity is performed, projected, and controlled within the photographic frame. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026