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= Ashley Armitage = Ashley Armitage was born in 1993 in Seattle, Washington. She is a commercial photographer, director, and the founder of a photo gallery called Girls by Girls that was created to represent and give an online platform to female, people of color, and LGBTQ+ artists. Armitage is driven to show women and girls as their natural, authentic selves and use the lens of the female gaze to emphasize their beauty.


 * Instagram: @ladyist
 * Portfolio website: asharmitage.com

Life and Education
At 15 years old, Armitage's father bought her a film camera and she went on to take photos of the settings, people, and art around. From that moment on, she grew a passion for photography and directing. Armitage attended a small arts-focused high school and encountered a film teacher who supported her films, so much so that they encouraged her to enter them into film festivals. At 18 years old, she started to attend college in Santa Barbara, California and joined in it's film production program. Armitage would later drop out of the program a year later after facing inequal opportunities in the male-dominated program. For example, her male counterparts would be considered for major production roles like directors and producers while the women were sought after to be assistants and stylists. Also, when Armitage went to make her own film which mainly featured a female's perspective, her input and ideas were curbed by her male counterparts.

Career
Armitage saw that beauty standards for women did not encapsule how everyday women look nor did it include how everyday women achieve them. Therefore, after being silenced by her peers in her film production program, Armitage went on to show and share what women look like through her dream-like, realistic portraits of her friends and sister. At 19 years old, Armitage went to take and post pictures of her friends on Instagram (and this has become a tradition upheld by her and her friends in present-day). At 21 years old, Instagram became the hub for her portraits as well as her the grounds for her supportive fanbase. From when Armitage was 22 to 26 years old, she has landed gigs for brands like Gucci, Nordstrom, and Lazy Oaf, but her most notable work were a set of commercials she shot for the razor brand, Billie.

Billie
Armitage's most memorable works is the set of commercials she created for the razor brand, Billie, in 2018 and 2019. These works are memorable because they were the first set of commercials which showed women shaving on screen. The first commercial featured women shaving their body hair and the second commercial featured women shaving their pubic hair. However, the second commercial was censored on Facebook and marked as "adult content". However, this would be the second time Armitage encountered censorship as it happened to an Instagram post of hers in 2015 which depicted a women's hairy bikini line.

Notable Achievements

 * August 2016 to October 2016: Featured artworks in an exhibition called "Figure as Form" at LTD Los Angeles Art Gallery in Los Angeles, California 2017: Shot two photoshoots for Nordstrom's pop-up shop for KBeauty (Korean Beauty) products and its collaboration with Nike (Nordstrom x Nike)
 * June 2017 to October 2017: Featured artworks in an exhibition called "Women in Photography" at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
 * 2018: Starred in a Gucci photo shoot for Gucci Guilty Perfume in Los Angeles
 * 2018: Shot her first campaign for Lazy Oaf
 * June, 2018: Directed her first commercial for Billie and it became the first ad to show women shaving their body hair
 * 2019: Given the title "The Body-Positive Photographer" of Glamour's WOTY (Women of the Year) All Year list
 * June, 2019: Directed a second commercial Billie and it became the first ad to show women shaving their pubic hair
 * November, 2020: Shot her second campaign for Lazy Oaf
 * August, 2022: Shot a commercial for Hanes for their new "Comfort, Period." underwear