Haley Morris-Cafiero

After her series Wait Watchers went viral, Haley Morris-Cafiero received numerous hateful comments on the internet. The Bully Pulpit is her response to those comments. An inspired Morris-Cafiero realized that she could parody the bullies by creating images and publishing those images on the internet --the same vehicle used for the attacks. Photographing herself costumed like the people who've attempted to bully her, she recreated their images found via public profiles by using wigs, clothing, and simple prosthetics and overlaid those images with transcripts of the bullying comments. The result is The Bully Pulpit, a project that pushes the boundaries of self-portraiture and raises questions about the social sphere of the internet.