“Grounded,” a one-woman play written by George Brant, is now an opera that will premiere with the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center. The opera examines the struggles of a female Air Force F-16 pilot who becomes a drone pilot after being grounded due to pregnancy.
Previously a full-time boudoir photographer, Charise Isis knows how empowering it can be for women to pose in a photo shoot celebrating their bodies. Her latest project explores the same theme, photographing the mastectomy scars of breast cancer survivors who have served in the military. The photographer's work will be the focus of "The Athena