Are collaborative approaches to photography a feminist act? Drawing on her doctoral research into Ffotogallery’s archive of documentary photographs of the South Wales Valleys, Sam McGuire will consider the role gender played in Francesca Odell’s practice. Through close reading of Odell’s prints and contact sheets, Sam will argue that Odell’s access to her subjects, photographing them in bed, on the maternity ward and on Christmas morning, was informed by her identity. The session will consider how personal politics, life experience and social conditions shape the relationships photographers form with the people they photograph.

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