Credit: Hamza Abouelouafaa - Details
Cassandra has been a film photographer for 8 years now. Soft and authentic, she strives to immortalize bodies, their curves, their strength and their simplicity. A lover of sensuality and nudity, the Montreal artist thinks it’s important to see and be moved by naked skin that resembles reality, far from the unhealthy beauty standards and corrupt images we are too often confronted within the media.
She loves getting the chance to photograph people through the changes in their lives, building relationships through her practice and putting vulnerability at the front of every experience. There’s nothing she likes more than getting to exchange and share with her subjects. Building these connections are as important to her as the actual photoshoot.
She was the co-founder and photographer of The Womanhood Project, which has won multiple prizes and was renowned in international media. Right before deciding to close that chapter, the project was part of Opening A Dialogue About Body Liberation, an exhibition at the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec.
Past Projects & Exhibitions
L’allaitement avec Cassandra - Avoir Su - Urbania, 2023
Collective Exhibition Ouvrir le Dialogue sur la diversité corporelle - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), 2021
Audioguide for Picasso. Figures - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), 2021
Corps, sexualité et création - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) - 2020
Co-creator and photographer of The Womanhood Project, 2016 - 2021
Creator of Deux Mètres, 2020
Photography direction and collaboration of Lesbian Break-Up Song - Safia Nolin x Bien à vous x The Womanhood Project, 2019
Photography of the poster of the movie Tendrement, 2019
Photography for Darlene Cole - Constellation Mag, 2017
Press
Le projet Deux mètres: des sourires en temps de confinement - Radio-Canada, 2020
Ne pas rester sans rien faire - Le Devoir, 2020
Célébrer la diversité des corps - La Fabrique Culturelle, 2020
Poser nue pour se (re)donner le droit d’exister - Radio-Canada, 2019
Toutes debout pour les femmes: Cassandra Cacheiro et Sara Hini - ELLE Québec, 2019
Interviews: The Womanhood Project - Vogue Italia, 2018
The Womanhood Project: Être femme, en ville variante - La Gazette des Femmes, 2017
The Womanhood Project is the new photography platform urging women of the world to unite - I-D Vice, 2017
Awards
Grand prix: The Womanhood Project par Cassandra Cacheiro - Concours Lux 2017: les 100 images de l’année, 2017
Prix Équilibre Coup de Coeur du Jury - The Womanhood Project, 2021