About Her Side

Her Side is a multimedia fiction project conceived by author Mur Lafferty and photographer J.R. Blackwell.

Mur Lafferty’s narrative leads the reader through a story of violence, love and self discovery as J.R. Blackwell’s photography illuminates the unspoken elements of the story. Together, they combine two different storytelling methods to tell one story.

And finally we have:

Her Side… in print.

Curators:

The photographs in the “Her Side” series are available for gallery shows. If you are a curator interested in showing the photographs of “Her Side”, please contact J.R. Blackwell at jrblackwell@gmail.com

The models in this project are Dan and Avalon.

Through photography and fiction you will experience a story that will move, trouble, and perhaps frighten you. You haven’t seen fiction like this before.

Over ten weeks, Mur Lafferty and J.R. Blackwell released a new puzzle piece of the story every Tuesday – a written story and a photograph that illuminate the twisted coming of age story of a young woman, caught between love and self reliance.

This project was conceived from a snowballing brainstorming session by Mur Lafferty and J.R. Blackwell. J.R. had mentioned her desire to give away photographs as a way to help their friend and fellow author, J.C. Hutchins, promote his excellent book Personal Effects: Dark Art. The idea to add written words to J.R.’s photos, to collaborate and create a whole stand-alone project, while still using the content to support Hutchins’ book, came out of that comment.

Mur and J.R. are not affiliated with St. Martin’s press and their story does not intersect at all with, or take place in the fictional world of, Personal Effects: Dark Art. However, J.C. has long been a friend and supporter of Mur and J.R. and they wanted to give a little back. Thus they have collaborated to bring you an original story.

About the Photographer

JR Blackwell

J.R. Blackwell is a writer and photographer who lives in Philadelphia.

Her stories have been published by Aoife’s Kiss, Kaleidotrope, Bewildering Stories, Static Movement Magazine, EMG Magazine, HeavyGlow Magazine and Escape Pod. She is one of the founding members of 365tomorrows.com.

J.R. has produced the covers to the Anthology “Voices: New Media Fiction” the novels “Playing for Keeps”, “The Case of the Singing Sword” and” Pitchers Pendant”. Her photography has been featured in SubLit Magazine and Flames Rising.

J.R. holds a Masters of Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.