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Panel Discussion with Anna Fox and Aldeide Delgado: What are the current issues women face in photography today?
Guest speakers Professor Anna Fox from Fast Forward: Women in Photography and Aldeide Delgado from Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) join us for a panel discussion moderated by workshop lead Elizabeth Ransom to uncover what the current issues women face in the Read More
A 24-hour broadcast streamed globally from Scotland from 12noon Sat 9th UTC to 12noon UTC Sunday 10th December
This coincides with Human Rights Day this weekend (this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Responding to the question: “what does peace sound like to you?”
broadcaster, writer and agitator Read More
Liz Wells, a writer, curator, and lecturer on photographic practices, is Professor Emeritus in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, at the University of Plymouth, UK and remains active in the Faculty’s international Environmental Arts research networks. Her research in photographic culture focuses on land, landscape, place, and environment, as well as on Read More
A special symposium hosted in collaboration with the V&A celebrating ‘Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back’ Andi Gáldi Vinkó, (Trolley Books) winner of the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Symposium 2023: Perspectives on Motherhood
16:00 – 19:30, Tuesday 14 November 2023
V&A, South Kensington, London SW7 Read More
Next Wednesday / 18 OCT MPF are holding an evening of short talks on photography and issues of displacement and the refugee experience. Speakers are Amak Mahmoodian, Frankie Mills, Adiam Yemane, Liz Hingley and Aida Silvestri. Complimentary nibbles and drinks provided.
THE SIM PROJECT WORKSHOPS
MEMORIES IN MOTION
‘As a migrant, I don’t really have roots, I have Read More
CONGRATULATIONS TO FAST FORWARD FRIENDS IN THE SHOW – THIS IS WONDERFUL! – THE FIRST OF ITS KIND – THINGS ARE LOOKING UP!
This exhibition is the first of its kind – a major survey of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It explores how networks of women used radical ideas Read More
The next MPF exhibition launched 28 SEPT bringing together for the first time the work of two photographers, Adrian Tyler and Jill Quigley.
Adrian Tyler presents Dust to Dust and Jill Quigley presents Cottages of Quigley’s Point, each exploring uninhabited homes and the objects scattered within them.
‘In this exhibition, two photographers carefully explore and engage with rural domestic ruins – more specifically, Read More
New work by photographer Jenny Matthews open
at Farleys House and Gallery in Chiddingly BN8 6HW
For over 40 years Jenny Matthew’s documentary photography has concentrated on the effects of conflict on women and communities. Since 2020 she has been making photo quilts/hangings with edits of her photos, which have been printed onto cotton linen.
Some images have Read More
How can artists create space in their work to reflect on colonial pasts? Join Mónica de Miranda and Professor Mark Sealy in conversation, and the launch of a limited edition book and print of de Miranda’s work The Island – a rare opportunity acquire work by the artist for only £100.
AUTOGRAPH, LONDON
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 6:30PM
IMAGO LISBOA Photo Festival & Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes are pleased to invite you to the exhibition Rethinking Identity from Lois Cid, Lara Jacinto and Maria Gruzdeva in the scope of the54th Edition of the IMAGO LISBOA Photo Festival, at Galeria Pintor Fernando de Azevedo in SNBA.
Coming soon – great new book
By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more Read More
Women | Photography, a newsletter edited by author Malavika Karlekar which foregrounds the role of women as visual chroniclers and creative artists, broadening the established canons of lens-based histories within and outside the subcontinent.
In this edition, researcher Senani Dehigolla narrates a personal account of her experience of the mass uprising on 9 July 2022 which took place on the streets of Read More
V&A SOUTH KENSINGTON | ON VIEW UNTIL April 20, 2024
The Village on the Highway, 2021, the print commission by Gauri Gill, inaugurates the V&A South Kensington’s newly expanded Photography Centre. Visit the work in person until 2024.
Gauri Gill is an Indian photographer known for her collaborative work with peripheral communities, especially Read More
The workshop, designed to span approximately 1.5 to 2 hours, will begin with Dawn Woolley’s brief talk and introduction to her #RebelSelves installation, currently on show at Diskurs gallery. This interactive workshop empowers attendees to express themselves artistically, fostering self-exploration and creativity at different levels. Woolley will invite particpants to develop characters using masks and Read More
WOPHA team reports on the tour taken collaboratively with two teams: WOPHA and FAST FORWARD
“As the premiere stop in their US collaborative tour, the union of UK-based organization Fast Forward Women in Photography with Miami-based nonprofit Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) was a week-long celebration in March 2023 which highlighted and called to action for the Read More
Hapax are pleased to announce the six recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for the fourth issue, to be published early in Summer 2023.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected four artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication Read More
Ghanaian photographer’s crowdfunded project won support of Humans of New York author and boasts more than 30,000 books
The largest photography library in Africa has opened in Ghana’s capital, Accra, showcasing the work of the continent and diaspora’s forgotten, established and emerging talent.
Founded by Ghanaian photographer and film-maker Paul Read More
Alessandra Sanguinetti will be live in conversation with Rebecca Bengal discussing her new book – SOME SAY ICE – published by Mack Books.
On Magnum Photos instagram. 1pm NY time. = 10am PST time = 2pm Buenos Aires = 6pm UK time
@MACK_books and @magnumphotos
A fabulous new book by Justine Kurland is out now published by Mack.
SCUMB Manifesto
SCUMB stands for Society for Cutting up Men’s Books!
Article by Sean Hagan is on line in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/23/justine-kurland-a-new-scumb-manifesto-photography-collage-cut-up
Daughters of the Soil is the culmination of twelve months research by documentary photographer Joanne Coates into the role of women in agriculture in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
The work was produced during a residency with Maltings and Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) and Institute for Creative Arts Practice, which enabled the artist to Read More
Fast Forward has established a significance within the world of photography for highlighting the work of women photographers and for questioning the way that the established canons have been formed. By showcasing the best of emerging and established photography we have started an important discussion and network that will be on going and diverse.
Fast Forward Read More
Martha Langford (Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University in Montreal)
New national histories of photography are appearing. Some are recuperative, supplementing the canon with missing or underestimated figures. Others are methodological retellings, refreshing the canon with new historiographical perspectives. Some are bent on justice, adapting postcolonial, decolonizing, or settler-colonial Read More
A full day symposium focusing on how photographers and artists engage with communities and establish networks that help them to forge successful careers. This event is in partnership with the University of Salford School of Arts and Media.
A good network can provide you with encouragement, advice, direction and experience. A poor network could Read More
This is worth a read – wishing we had some stats for photography
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History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
All events free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
24 October 2017, 6:00-7:30pm
Keynes Library (room 114)
Dr. AnnaLea Tunesi (independent scholar)
Art Dealing, Taste and Politics: Photographs from the archives of Florentine art dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922)
Stefano Bardini, Self-portrait.
This paper explores the importance of photography in Read More
New perspectives on the border in Ireland
9 Sept – 22 Oct 2017
Thursday 14 September
5pm: Artist Kate Nolan ‘In Conversation’ with Stephanie McBride
6pm: Official launch of the exhibition
Gallery of Photography Ireland, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
READING THE COLLECTIONS, WEEK 47: CELEBRATING WOMEN: THE FRANKI RAFFLES PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
Spectacular work by photographer Franki Raffles
Born in Manchester and raised in London, Franki Raffles was an alumna of St Andrews University (MA in Moral Philosophy, 1977). After graduating she made her home in Scotland, first on the Isle of Lewis and later in Edinburgh, Read More
GSA & Edinburgh Napier University
Assessing the legacy and impact of feminist photographer Franki Raffles
Tuesday 25 April 2017, 11-4pm,
This symposium is a contribution to the appreciation of the current Franki Raffles exhibition Observing Women at Work at Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 4 March – 27 April 2017.
What are the lessons for contemporary feminist and Read More
Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 4 March-27 April 2017 An exhibition of work by the feminist social documentary photographer
Franki Raffles (1955-94) was a feminist social documentary photographer. This exhibition Observing Women at Work presents a selection of photographs and material by Franki Raffles [1955-94] from three bodies of work, namely ‘Women Workers in the Read More
Publishing and photo books – From editing and design to marketing and distribution
Magnum Photos, London | Sat 29 & Sun 30 July 2017
Learn from the best publishers and photobook producers about the publishing market: covering how to pitch to publishers, methods of production, design, editing, and budgets.
BOOK A PLACE HERE:
https://magnumphotos.wufoo.com/forms/m1pxstip1jpyoc3/
History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
Free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Wednesday 17 May, 2:00-5:00pm
Room G04
A collaboration with Birkbeck Architecture Space and Society Centre:
Sabine Wieber (Glasgow University)
‘Intimate Collaborations’ at the Photo Studio Elvira in Munich
Tag Gronberg (Birkbeck)
Architectural Relationships Past, Present and Future on the Côte d’Azur
Patrizia Di Bello, (Birkbeck)
Response: Read More
Interesting review on a new book Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen, published by Laurence King (2017)
“The roles women take in universities aren’t recognised as routes to the top. But they demand as much drive as the posts traditionally scooped up by men”
Read the full article on the direct link
“Building Resilience: Dialogue, Collaboration and Partnerships across Our Differences”
Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Moon and a Smile
Greta Alfaro, Anna Fox, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Neeta Madahar & Melanie Rose, Sharon Morris, Sophy Rickett, Helen Sear, Patricia Ziad
4 March – 23 April 2017
The Moon and a Smile responds to a period in the 1840s and 1850s, when Swansea was at the centre of early experiments in photography worldwide. In Read More
Thursday 27 April 2017, 6:00-7:30
Room 106
Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia)
Photographing Tutankhamun: Photo-objects and the archival afterlives of colonial archaeology
Patrizia Di Bello (Dr),
Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Photography
Birkbeck, University of London,
www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history
He only feels the black and white of it, Berlin Wall 14-07-73 is published by Mörel Books.
Steffi Klenz places a sequence of a 1973 archive press-photograph at the centre: a photograph of a damaged section of the Berlin Wall. The Image pictures East German military guards and border policemen carrying out repair works at the wall. Read More
The Lure of the Archive
Falmouth University Photography Symposium
At the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
4 March, 2017
10am – 5pm
To coincide with the launch of the exhibition The Moon and a Smile – eight new artist commissions responding to the photographs of the Dillwyn Llewelyn family in mid 19th century Swansea – Falmouth University hosts a Read More
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/01/20/article/159934571/on-feminism-the-winter-issue-of-aperture/
“The winter issue of Aperture, “On Feminism,” arrives at a moment when the power and influence women hold on the world stage is irrefutable, and the very idea of gender is central to conversations about equality across the country, and around the globe. “On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography Read More
Exhibition Laboratory
Merimiehenkatu 36
Helsinki
Finland
The KuvA Research Days discuss artistic research across the disciplines
The Research Days of the Academy of Fine Arts (KuvA) are held from December 12 to December 14 in Helsinki, Finland. The themes explored in this public event include death, the role of the artist-researcher in society and in science, and archaeology as Read More
WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH?
An afternoon of presentations and conversations emerging from the themes of the inaugural UAL Photography Research Exhibition at Camberwell Space Projects.
Chaired by Anne Williams and Duncan Wooldridge
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Helen Westgeest
Photographic research as comparative interrogation of visual mediation in fine arts and everyday life
Dr. Westgeest is Assistant Professor of Modern and Read More
“Once in a while an artistic practice emerges that challenges viewers in new ways that cut through the noise, and offers something both deeply familiar and at the same time utterly new. Collaborative, creative, and experimental, Gill and Vangad, in Fields of Sight, provide a new language for art practices that address the politics and Read More
Le donne fotografe dalla nascita della fotografia ad oggi: uno sguardo di genere / Women photographers from the beginning of photography up to now: a gender insight
crowd funding project
Strive Market
As part of the Strive Festival we will have a Market in the Royal Festival Hall. It is an opportunity to share the diverse creativity, skills and innovation of young people and of course sell your creations!
We are offering (Free) stalls to talented young people (15-30) who create/design/ make their own work. This could range from Read More
STEFFI KLENZ
He only feels the black and white of it:
Berlin Wall 14-07-1973
BOOK LAUNCH – TUESDAY, 21st June
The Heights Bar, 15th Floor
Saint Georges Hotel 14-15 Langham Place, Regent Street, London W1B 2QS
MOREL BOOKS
INSPIRING FILMS ABOUT WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Here are three films about women photographers that all aspiring photographers must watch. Filmed in different settings and time, these films take us through the journey of women who break norms and stereotypes to find their voice through the lens. The films showcase their artistic pursuits, personal struggles and social concerns, Read More
Free and open to all at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1, unless otherwise specified
Thursday 9 June 2016, 6-7:30 pm
Room 112
Luke Gartlan (University of St. Andrews, History of Photography journal)
Before ‘White Australia’: The Singleton Family Photo Albums and Early Australian-Japanese Relations
Patrizia Di Bello (Dr),
Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Photography
Birkbeck, University of London,
www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history
Tate Britain, Clore Studio
Saturday 18 June 2016, 17.00–18.30
Coinciding with the Jo Spence display, artist Rose Gibbs leads a discussion drawing on the legacy of the Hackney Flashers and women’s arts collectives, past and present, considering their work in relation to women and feminised labour.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s there were an abundance of collective activities and Read More
some interesting women in this talks collection
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/creating-value-around-women-artists-the-chief-curator-s-view/
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/06/underexposed-the-forgotten-female-pioneers-of-photography
Saturday 21 May, 2.00pm to 3.30pm.
Malcolm Dickson, co-curator of Passion, will discuss Maud Sulter’s work with artist Marlene Smith, a key figure in the British black arts movement. Followed by refreshments.
Free event, booking advised.
Now in its seventh edition, NPS 2016 is organised this year in partnership with FORMAT International Photography Festival off year and QUAD. It explores three main themes: new online photographic communities that are revolutionising learning and showing of work; the challenges of making – and forgetting – visual history in an age when everything is Read More
The Photography Show open now is the UK’s largest event dedicated to photography, it offers a great opportunity for you to try (and buy!) some of the latest kit, get advice and inspiration from some of the best in the business and meet potential business partners.
Pro Day is on Monday, 21 March and in the Read More
FORMAT Photoforum
QUAD
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby DE1 3AS
Thursday 12th May, 2016
18:30 – 20:30
£ 5 (£4)
We invite you to share your work and gain valuable advice and guidance from photographer, author and teacher, Paul Hill MBE in this Open Session. These open sessions are great opportunities to ‘expose yourself’ in front of an informed audience of fellow Read More
This is a wonderful publisher but out of nearly 40 books on the site only 2 are by a woman – the same woman
the wonderful Trish Porter
http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/?tx=4JG67517UH0031919&st=Completed&amt=9%2e45&cc=GBP&cm=&item_number=
I suggest we all try to get published here
The National Photography Symposium is the UK’s leading gathering place for ideas and discussion around photography. Now in its seventh edition, NPS 2016 explores two main themes: new online photographic communities that are revolutionising learning and showing of work; and the challenges of making – and forgetting – visual history in an age when everything is Read More
Free and open to all, note the change of address for the next event
Wednesday 9 March 2016 – 6-7:30
*Clore Lecture Theater, Clore management Centre, Torrington Square (opposite main building), WC1E 7JL
Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University & Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities)
Picturing Modernization: Vision, Modernity and the Technological Image in Humphrey Jennings’ Pandaemonium
Humphrey Jennings’ Pandaemonium: Coming Read More
Juno Calypso and Felicity Hammond, winners of this year’s British Journal of Photography International Awards are exhibiting their work right now.
It is the second year that the gallery are hosting the awards, and the 10th year of the awards itself. Do hope you will be able to join us. The exhibition will be on until Read More
http://www.recyclart.be/fr/agenda/extra-fort-nick-hannes-maria-kapajeva
bar 19:30
doors 20:15 €3
projection / projectie 20:30
Rue des Ursulines 25
1000 Bruxelles
Accès
Les soirées « extra fort » sont des soirées photographiques corsées pour ceux qui aiment les images. Des photographes présentent et échangent avec vous autour de leur travail, les influences qui les ont accompagnés dans leur démarche, les projets connus mais aussi méconnus. Read More
History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
Free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, unless otherwise specified
Wednesday 17 February 2016, 6-7:30 pm
Room B04
Linda Mulcahy (London School of Economics)
Docile Suffragettes? Resistance to Police Photography
Seminal accounts of the history of photography commonly draw attention to the mugshot as the archetypal documentary visual record Read More
KEN. TO BE DESTROYED. A new publication from Sara Davidmann
Edited by Val Williams
Published by Schilt, Amsterdam.
Ken.To be destroyed began with an archive and a discovery. Sara Davidmann and her siblings inherited letters and photographs belonging to their uncle and aunt, Ken and Hazel Houston, from their mother Audrey Davidmann. The letters Read More
La Toya Ruby Frazier – this video is fascinating – she has just won a major MacArthur grand and has a new book out with Aperture
http://aperture.org/shop/latoya-ruby-frazier-the-notion-of-family-books
Free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Room 112
Monica Bohm-Duchen in conversation with Dorothy Bohm
About Women: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm
This is Dorothy Bohm’s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. Taken throughout the world, from the late 1940s until the present day, her photographs range from images of Read More
>³One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,² and there were those,
>who became a woman long before the famous quote of Simone de Beauvoir
>was said out loud in 1949 and who left their footprint, seen or hidden,
>praised or still unrecognized. Last couple of decades have seen a
>radical transformation in the ways of recreation, assimilation,
>dispersion Read More
STUDY DAY: This study day will explore a century of outstanding contributions to photography by women. Inspired by the current Julia Margaret Cameron Display, academics, curators and writers will explore Women’s contribution to a genres including, fine art, fashion, war and political photographs.
year three photography students from Coventry University have organised:
The INSITE symposium will be a forum in which individual research
projects will be presented, examining a variety of issues relating
to photographic practice and visual representation in the 21st
century. 36 speakers will form a programme taking place over two
days, on the 3rd and the 4th of February from Read More
http://www.lianzhoufoto.com/exhibition.aspx
read this interesting review about three Chinese photographers includes two women
Wei Leng Tay
Huang Dongli
Found this interesting
http://www.baxterst.org/2015/09/27/day-in-ellis-island-1951-unpublished-portfolio-by-erika-stone/
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, September 7 – 08, 2016
Museums and Galleries History Group Biennial Conference
Gendering Museum Histories
This conference addresses the relationship between museums, galleries
and gender during the last 400 years. Museums can be understood as
buildings, institutions, collections, displays, interpretations and
groups of people; each of these aspects has both reflected and shaped
ideas about gender and its construction Read More
Tuesday 26 January 2016, 6-8 pm
Keynes Library
Marta Weiss (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Julia Margaret Cameron: New Discoveries
Responding: Colin Ford (Former head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford)
This seminar will explore new material Martha Weiss discovered while researching the current must-see exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, marking the bicentenary of Read More
Wednesday 20th April – Friday 22nd April 2016, QUAD Derby
Redeye is partnering with Format and Flâneur, Procurate for the return of the UK’s largest portfolio review and The National Photography Symposium in April next year. Keep your diaries free to meet and hear from 30+ international photography experts at this not-to-be-missed networking event. Featuring professional practice talks by industry experts, major awards Read More
Redeye will be hosting a day of events at The Photography Show in 2016. Redeye will be running a day of activities on Tuesday 22nd March including quick-fire talks from contemporary photographers, workshops on professional practice, and advice on presenting your work.
The Redeye Team
facebook.com/redeyephotographynetwork
@redeyenetwork
www.redeye.org.uk
Shadow Sites II will be screened at the ICA on Tuesday evening in A Cosmonaut’s Trip, a programme which examines the role of space exploration in experimental film, featuring archive footage by pioneers of early cinema alongside animation and contemporary artists’ moving image works:
Photoworks speak to self-proclaimed ‘photographic archaeologist’ Eva Stenram about the ideas and processes behind her practice and her use of found imagery.
http://photoworks.org.uk/interview-eva-stenram/
Saatchi Gallery
14th January, 19:00 (Doors open 18:30)
We’re kicking off the year with a screening to celebrate
Saatchi Gallery‘s 30th birthday and the opening of their
first ever all-women show on 14th January.
The exhibition, titled Champagne Life, features 14 artists
including Mirrors to Windows artist Alice Anderson.
Followed by Q&A with director Susan Steinberg.
Issue Five
What makes a particular site ‘home’? Is it where our roots begin, or is it fluid and changing, existing as an unfixed place of comfort? Curated by Talia Smith, Issue Five of Common Ground brings together diverse works and words by women artists and writers to determine if home really is where the heart is.
Artists:
Rachael Ireland
Delena Nathuran
Ann Read More
Following a very successful 2015, we would like to thank you for your continued support and formally announce that Photobook Bristol will return to the SouthBank Club, Bristol on the 10th-12th June 2016. We have confirmed some fantastic speakers already, including Ken Grant, Mark Power, David Solo, Laura El-Tantawy, Amak Mahmoodian, Dragan Jurasic, Martin Parr, Read More
About Women is Dorothy Bohm’s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. Taken throughout the world, from the late 1940s until the present day, her photographs range from images of ordinary women going about their everyday activities, to explorations of the role that representations of women, in the form of advertisements, posters Read More
London Art Fair has built up a strong reputation for photography within the Main Fair, Art Projects and Photo50.
Photography Focus Day takes place at London Art Fair on Wednesday 20 January, with talks and tours on this day examining contemporary photographic practice.
All events are free to attend with a valid Fair ticket or invitation and take place in Read More
Gerry Badger, Lara Clifton, Julie Cook, Paul Davies, Dr Nerys Mathias meet to discuss issues related to the body and Julie Cooks exhibition – Sightlines: Public and Private (Lives). There will also be a special performance by Blanche Dubois.
Lunch and drinks included
There is a ticket line number and a box office number (Box Office is open only Read More
