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Celebrating female creativity is at the heart of what we stand for at the Women’s Prize. Consequently we were thrilled to have Anna Fox, acclaimed photographer, join us at the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction awards ceremony.
Recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Anna’s work has been included in numerous Read More
Alissa Everett will be in conversation talking about two decades of documenting social issues, remote locations and indigenous cultures
About this event
Photographer Alissa Everett will be in conversation with RPS President Simon Hill on two decades of documenting social issues, remote locations, and indigenous cultures from Iraq to Ukraine.
Everett initially began her journey as a photographer in conflict zones and Read More
Create/Feminisms (Middlesex University) is organising 4 online research seminars, held on Zoom, June-July 2022 (2-6pm, BST)
The 4 seminars programme and links
1) Decolonising Craft (June 14)
Keynote Speaker: Aarti Kawlra
Panellists: Fatima Hussain, Neelam Raina
Chair: Rima Saini
2) Feminist Pedagogies: learning to unlearn and decolonial toolkits (June 21)
Keynote Speaker: Dalida Maria Benfield
Panellists: Sharlene Khan, Michele Williams Gamaker, Isabelle Massu
3) De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Futures in Read More
In collaboration with Mira Matic and Kateryna Snizhko, Looiersgracht 60 is pleased to present the group exhibition, Svitlo. This exhibition brings together the work of 12 artists, including Nettie Edwards (UK), Cristina Fontsare (ES), Liz Harrington (UK), Poppy Lekner (NZ), Ky Lewis (UK), Anna Luk (UK), Sonia Mangiapane (AU/NL), Emilie Poiret-Brown (UK), Megan Ringrose (UK), Read More
WomenTalkPlace are delighted to welcome Jini Reddy to launch the programme for the Talking Place Symposium.
Talking Place will take place over three days – an online day on Friday 2 September, and a two day symposium at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September. This evening they will reveal the Read More
Over the month of May, invited speakers will give a talk each week discussing how as artist parents/carers they balance and sustain their professional and personal creativity and the demands of a family.
Please note that all speakers are parents, and that the day and time of each talk will vary week by week. This is Read More
Conference
Curated by Delphine Bedel and Daria Tuminas
Between 6 and 8 May 2022, FOTODOK organizes the conference (IN)VISIBILITIES, Gender and Photography in the Netherlands. This is the conference’s second edition, following up from The Female Perspective in Documentary Photography, which took place at The Cobra Museum Modern Art, Amstelveen in 2019 on the occasion of the Read More
Together at Last retraces the artistic journey of Natasha Caruana. By drawing from her personal archives or the intricacies of the internet, the English visual artist determines how each stage of her life as a woman works. Driven by the perpetual questioning of her status as a wife and young mother, Natasha Caruana considers her Read More
Accompanying their gallery exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens, this series of online talks with artists, activists and makers has been produced in collaboration with Kylie Thomas of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) in Amsterdam, and the editor of a special issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Read More
Four Corners are delighted to present their major exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens, which showcases striking images by photographers from across generations, who have used their cameras to support political struggle and social change in Britain from 1968 to today.
The exhibition centres the voices and perspectives of women and nonbinary photographers, and Read More
Buy art and design to support Ukraine: the sales and auctions happening now
“Discover how photographers, artists and designers are raising money for Ukraine’s humanitarian relief effort and find out how to buy their works
Galvanised by the mounting human tragedy of the war in Ukraine, many in the creative world have felt compelled to offer help in the best Read More
The RPS Women in Photography Group are pleased to be hosting an evening of conversation with Karen Knorr, HonFRPS and Anna Fox, HonFRPS to kickoff International Women’s Day and our week of celebrations of the women in photography.
With more than 70 years in photography between them, Karen and Anna will discuss what challenges they faced Read More
The Slade School of Fine Art was established in 1871 to teach fine art within a University setting. Ground breaking in terms of art education, both male and female students were taught from the beginning with parallel access to the life model. Initiated by Professor Liz Rideal, this symposium will offer historical perspectives alongside contemporary Read More
Sundaram Tagore is pleased to present an exhibition of work by eight pioneering women whose paintings, installations and photography reimagine spaces both real and symbolic. From an immersive large-scale light installation that transforms the surrounding environment to vibrant photographic imagery of staged narratives, this work challenges norms. Exhibiting artists include: Anila Quayyum Agha, Miya Ando, Read More
For photographer Elle Pérez, whose work is featured in the exhibition Orlando at Art on Hulfish, the camera is an instrument of recognition, creating intimate documents of community relationships. Pérez’s multifaceted practice of portrait, landscape, and observational photography centers on the complexity of personal identity. The artist will discuss images, identity, and storytelling across their Read More
The Jean-Cocteau Cultural Center invites the Franco-Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic (Sarajevo, 1967) to present Echos, her first personal exhibition in a French public institution. Internationally renowned artist, Maja Bajevic took refuge in Paris during the Yugoslav conflict in the early 1990s. This ordeal animated in her a deep reflection on the political construction of identities Read More
In this exhibition guest curator, the artist NAGASHIMA Yurie, looks at works (including her own) produced by ten artists whose careers began in the 1990s, and offers fresh interpretations of these works from a feminist viewpoint.
Nagashima has been producing photographic work and writing since her own art-scene debut in 1993, all the while harbouring doubts Read More
The São Paulo Pinacoteca, Museum of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo, celebrates the 35-year career of Rosângela Rennó (Belo Horizonte, 1962) with a panoramic exhibition that brings together around 130 works between 1987 and 2021. The Little Image Ecology exhibition presents the main arguments that the artist Read More
Topical Cream, the non-profit arts organization founded in 2013 which supports the work of women and gender non-conforming individuals in contemporary art, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Topical Cream Prize. The Topical Cream Prize (co-chaired by Lyndsy Welgos and Marcella Zimmermann) is an unrestricted cash prize awarded annually to one artist Read More
Eruptions marks Indian transmedia artist and activist Poulomi Basu’s (b.1983, Calcutta) first major international solo exhibition, which will show at SIDE from 30th October 2021 – February 6th 2022. The immersive installation of VR, film and photography will showcase the development of Basu’s participatory practice between 2009 and 2021. Shown together for the first time, Read More
Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective showcases the endless innovation and profound influence of this remarkable photographer who pushed the boundaries for both women in the arts and photography as an art form. Nearly 200 of Cunningham’s insightful portraits, elegant flower and plant studies, poignant street pictures, and ground breaking nudes present a singular vision developed over Read More
Natasha Caruana (b. UK, 1983) is no longer an unknown in France. Winner of the BMW Artist in Residence Award in 2014, she has nevertheless not gotten the exposure that she deserves. For fifteen years, the British artist has been fictionally creating scenarios that recount personal relationships, the complexity of positions in a heterosexual couple. Read More
This moderated conversation with Mikki Kendall will delve into her book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot. Mikki will share her ideas on resisting isolation as a critically engaged writer and artist involved in social movements. How creatives can work in collaboration with organizations to address issues like gun violence and Read More
The gallery is pleased to announce its third exhibition with the artist, featuring a new series of photographs.
Self Circuits is a series of sculptural photographic works representing transformative, almost mythological experiences. These are binary unions of biological systems, as opposed to cyborgian bodies. Self Circuits are naturally instinctive and exist in the wild. It is Read More
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announce highlights of the inaugural WOPHA Congress. Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, this first international convening of its kind invites women photography organizations and artists around the world to an in-person and online space for dialogue, celebration, and critical debate about women’s contributions to Read More
FloodZone is an exhibition of an expansive and ongoing photographic series by Anastasia Samoylova, responding to the environmental changes in coastal cities of South Florida. By playing self-consciously with the familiar motifs and palette of the region, the photographs work as complex allegories. There are aerial photographs of the saturated topography; portraits of locals; and Read More
This exhibition explores photography and fashion through the work of three acclaimed multidisciplinary women artists: Barbara Hulanicki, Tamary Kudita, and Bunny Yeager.
Born in Poland, but raised in England, Barbara Hulanicki OBE is a renowned British fashion icon, having been awarded an OBE for Services to Fashion in the 2012 Queen’s New Year Honors. Hulanicki began Read More
The Fuentes Angarita Collection (FAC) presents the group exhibition Past and Present of the Body: 16 Voices of Contemporary Photography. The show explores the diversity of readings and ideas about the body, taking into account the works of both prominent and emerging women photographers. Curator Pietro Daprano asserts “For some people, their body is a Read More
WOPHA, in collaboration with 1854 Media and British Journal of Photography, presents the winners of the Female in Focus award, launched in 2019 in response to the staggering gender imbalance in photography. The exhibition will take place in Miami for the first time at the new Green Space Miami and in UK later this year. Read More
Belfast Exposed presents a solo photographic exhibition that showcases new works by Belfast Exposed Futures Artist, Manon Ouimet, ‘My Name is Maya ’. Ouimet’s series tracks her conversion to Judaism with her images reflecting her journey from spiritual desire to belong, through a calendar year of richly-grounding festivals, traditions and food.
The Belfast Exposed Futures Awards Read More
Meşher
İstanbul, Türkiye
October 9, 2021–March 27, 2022
I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women features a selection of works by artist women who lived and worked in Turkey between roughly the 1850s and the 1950s. Realized under the patronage of Çiğdem Simavi and curated by Deniz Artun, the exhibition derives its name from one of Şükran Aziz’s exhibited Read More
Black women in Britain lift as they climb and have continued to do so for decades with minimal recognition or praise. Their fierce commitment to the collective care of their communities is sometimes to their own detriment. As our carers, educators, writers, activists, labourers and friends – who are susceptible to incomparable racial and sexual Read More
BOP – Books on Photography – is an annual festival bringing together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, booksellers and photographers from across Europe. This year BOP is in collaboration with Bristol Photo Festival, and will be held across Martin Parr Foundation, the Royal Photographic Society and the Paintworks Event Space, Bristol.
The festival provides an Read More
“If Paris is France, then Coney Island, between June and September, is the world.”
—George Tilyou, 1886
Despite the incessant predictions of its demise, Coney Island continues to attract visitors of all races, social classes and ethnicities, who, seeking respite from their quotidian stresses and routines, come together and inject the veins of “America’s Playground” with its Read More
Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks is a new film and installation project from artist, Helen Cammock.
Continuing a practice which harnesses film, photography, print, text, song and performance to explore social histories and interrogate mainstream historical narratives, Cammock brings together residents and community groups of Rochdale, Greater Manchester to articulate both individual and collective experiences as Read More
On 14 January 1971, The Photographers’ Gallery opened its doors with The Concerned Photographer, an exhibition that had previously been shown in the United States, Switzerland and Japan, and which presented photography as the optimum medium to document social conditions. This online conference has been organised to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Read More
In collaboration with Photo Oxford Festival 2021, hosted by the Maison Française d’Oxford, and supported by the Humanities Cultural Programme, the international and interdisciplinary Conference “Women, Memory & Transmission: Postcolonial Perspectives from the Arts and Literature” will explore what it means for women to transmit memories in postcolonial contexts. What strategies do women develop to Read More
The Photographers’ Gallery presents a retrospective spanning fifty years of work by the landmark American street photographer, Helen Levitt (1913–2009).
Taking place over two floors of the Gallery, this retrospective of more than 130 works will survey the full breadth of Levitt’s rich photographic practice, charting her journey from street reportage to documentary filmmaker and pioneer Read More
James Cohan is pleased to present A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, an exhibition by Gauri Gill, opening October 7, 2021 at 52 Walker Street. This is Gill’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan and inaugurates the gallery’s new Tribeca space. The gallery will host a masked reception on Thursday, October Read More
Dead water by the photographer Marilene Ribeiro is the winning project of the last call for Discoveries PHotoESPAÑA. Year after year, PHotoESPAÑA selects the best portfolio from among all those that are presented to the viewings; the award consists of an individual exhibition during the next edition of the festival. On this occasion, Casa de Read More
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
November 18 – 19, 2021
WOPHA and PAMM announce the participation of 50 internationally-recognized artists, curators, scholars, and educators from around the world alongside 40 worldwide collectives and organizations of women and non-binary photographers in the WOPHA Congress, the first two-day public convening of its kind.
Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, the Read More
With National Geographic photo editor Jennifer Samuel as moderator, eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects discuss their group project published in National Geographic Magazine about the impact of migration on women worldwide. In a dynamic discussion, Amrita Chandradas, Danielle Villasana, Ksenia Kuleshova, Miora Rajaonary, Mridula Amin, Nichole Sobecki, Saiyna Bashir, and Thana Faroq touch Read More
The Photo Oxford 2021 festival will run from 15 October to 15 November 2021 in venues and public spaces across Oxford and online. The majority of the prgramme is free of charge.
The fourth Photo Oxford festival continues the theme Women and Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen, to complete and expand on the 2020 festival, which was Read More
A SYSTEM AMONG OTHERS? POWER, BALANCE, SELF-REFLECTION ON AND WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE.
An international Symposium on Photography and Ethics at the nexus of the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Practice. Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Lund University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Foundation and Landskrona Foto.
LOCATION
Landskrona Theater, Sweden. 30 September & 1 October 2021
This Read More
HATCHED2021
photooxford.org festival
15/10-15/11 2021
WOMEN: WAYS OF SEEING AND BEING SEEN
OVADA, Oxford
04 to 06/11/2021
HATCHED is a creative platform promoting and sharing work addressing women’s issues and
experiences that range from ‘The personal is political’ to Human Rights. HATCHED was set up in
2016 by Maga Esberg and has been part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival since then.
2020-2021 has Read More
SOLIDARITY
The 2021 programme is created in response to the waves of protest and public demonstration that the world witnessed during the lockdowns of 2020. Exhibitions and live events programmed especially for the festival will give a voice to the urgent global issues of our time through the work of artists responding to the Black Read More
Retrospective exhibition unveiling decades of archive photography by US born photographer Marilyn Stafford to tour the UK 2021-2022
The first ever retrospective exhibition of US photographer, Marilyn Stafford (b.1925), launches this year, encompassing the most comprehensive display of the photographer’s work to date. Works come from an international archive spanning four decades, and include Read More
September 2-3, 2021
Conference organising committee: Barbara Borčić, Sandra Križić Roban, Marika Kuźmicz Lana Lovrenčić, Andra Silapētere
Organisers: Arton Foundation, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art- LCCA Riga, Center for Contemporary Arts – SCCA-Ljubljana & Office for Photography, Zagreb
Official language of the conference: ENG, the conference will be translated to Polish and will be held in Warsaw time.
We would Read More
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is intentional harm towards a person’s self without the intention of death. It can be a physical way to express emotions that feel limited by language or to alleviate the tension of withholding intense feelings. Through Solomons’ practical research, she highlights the need for interpersonal compassion towards individuals who feel isolated with Read More
In the attempt to shape further conversations on the devastating events taking place in Afghanistan, the ICA presents a curated selection of outstanding contemporary works by female filmmakers from and on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s long-lasting cultural effervescence has been heavily undermined by the recent foreign policies of major western governments and by the Taliban’s consequent gain of Read More
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the sixth solo exhibition by Sarah Jones and her first in the gallery’s new location at 60 Three Colts Lane.
The new work by Sarah Jones builds upon her distinct photographic language that dissolves the hazy glare of day into the weight of a photographic night, condensing a recognizable sense Read More
We, Women, the largest social impact photography project by women and gender nonconforming artists, is currently underway across the United States. This project unravels the legacy of power structures constructed and maintained through decades of “othering” through imagery. Further, We, Women showcases an inclusive approach to photography, demonstrating that agency and social change happen when Read More
Experiments in the Wonder World of Photography ‘What is a 21st Century photograph?’ — ‘What does it look like?’
Ellen Carey, American Experimental photographer asks these questions about her own work, following inquiries to women photographers worldwide in an open call put forth by Hundred Heroines in 2020.
“Light’s immateriality challenges its makers today, analogue versus digital Read More
Conversation: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander
Thursday, July 22, 6 p.m.
Presented virtually on Zoom
Join exhibiting artists An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander for a conversation about their artistic practices and Much Unseen is Also Here.
If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.
For more details please follow the direct link.
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announce highlights of the inaugural WOPHA Congress. Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, this first international convening of its kind invites women photography organizations and artists around the world to an in-person and online space for dialogue, celebration, and critical debate about women’s contributions to modern and contemporary Read More
In the framework of the Generation Equality Forum, the non-profit organisation AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions teamed up with the designer matali crasset to imagine a documentary exhibition on the recognition of 20th-century women and the main actions taken to highlight their work in the history of art: « Be AWARE. Read More
In the world that Martine Gutierrez photographs, she exists as the cynosure of global desire. The artist’s self-produced (and wholly independent) art publication, Indigenous Woman (2018), places variations of her image and body at the center of countless mise-en-scène, as she disrupts, subverts, and reappropriates the rarified space of cisgendered identity and whiteness—no longer unquestioned Read More
Much Unseen is Also Here, an initiative of Toward Common Cause, brings together the works of two major artists who both consider the theater of the landscape, monumentality, cultural history, and representation.
Probing monuments and identity, An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander explore history’s embeddedness in our present. Lê’s Silent General (2015 – ongoing) presents large-scale views Read More
Stills is delighted to present Move, a collaboration between Stills’ Creative Learning team, Works 4 Women and lead artist Morwenna Kearsley. Move is open from 24th June – 10th July 2021.
About Move
Exploring representations of women, culture, and ethnicity in the media, Move looks to expose unseen power dynamics between men and women in both public Read More
SEEDS OF EMPIRE is a series of exhibition projects by the artist Joy Gregory and composer Philip Miller. The work combines still and moving image, drawing, text, objects, sound to create an immersive installation. Emerging from Gregory’s extensive research on the slave trade and colonial histories in Jamaica, the work looks at documentation of slavery Read More
The New Woman of the 1920s was a powerful expression of modernity, a global phenomenon that embodied an ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art. Featuring more than 120 photographers from over 20 countries, this ground breaking exhibition explores the work of the diverse “new” women who Read More
An exhibition devoted to the life and work of Claudia Andujar and her collaboration with the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous peoples, who she has spent her life documenting and defending.
Over 200 photographs, an audio-visual installation and a series of drawings by the Yanomami are brought together for the exhibition. They reflect the dual Read More
“Rania Matar’s captivating photographs of young women around the world capture the transitory beauty of adolescence.” —Katie White, Artnet
As a Lebanese-born American artist and mother, Rania Matar’s cross-cultural experiences inform her art. She has dedicated her work to exploring issues of personal and collective identity through photographs of female adolescence and womanhood—both in the United Read More
This exhibition is part of the Official Section of the PHotoESPAÑA 2021 Festival.
Human intervention on nature and the effects on the individual are the central axis of this winning project of Discoveries PHotoESPAÑA 2020.
Agua Muerta is a joint project between the protagonists of the images – anonymously affected by civil works in regions of Brazil Read More
This Photo Cafe curated by artist Elisa Moris Vai will gather contemporary photographers for whom History is a substrate for creation.
Why and how do they address specific parts of History will be the focus of the evening. From research to the choice of mediums, from ethics to representation, travelling across personal and collective narratives, this Read More
IN PROGRESS is a new show commissioned by the RPS consisting of five solo exhibitions of both new work and work-in-progress, by five of the most innovative photographers and photo-based artists working today. The exhibition explores a wide range of issues – including personal history, cultural identity, nationality, community, migration, displacement, memory, responsibility, morality, belief Read More
Artists Heather Agyepong, Jessa Fairbrother, and Lua Ribeira have collaborated with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. In a series of separate interventions, the artists’ own work will be displayed alongside and interspersed with the Museum’s collections to encourage new dialogues around the works.
Memorialization in the Age of Forgetting | Heather Agyepong
Heather Agyepong utilises her own Read More
Drawn from one of the most comprehensive collections of Jo Spence’s works in the world, From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and wellbeing, celebrating her work as a photo therapist in which she used photography as a medium to address personal trauma, reflecting on key moments in her past.
Arnolfini Read More
Join New York based artist Xaviera Simmons for a conversation surrounding her multidisciplinary practice and her work exploring labour and the working practices of society.
About the artist
Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974, New York, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Simmons’ interdisciplinary practice spans across photography, performance, choreography, video, sound, sculpture and installation. Rooted in Read More
Sarah Kennel and Andrea Nelson will discuss some of the critical issues at stake in the organization of exhibitions focused exclusively on women photographers. Kennel’s Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection is currently on view at the High Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases more than one hundred photographs from the museum’s collection, many of Read More
You are invited to this special online event to launch HAVING REGARD, a new video project by photographer Kate Nolan & composer Irene Buckley. This launch will be hosted by Trish Lambe, curator at Gallery of Photography Ireland.
Commissioned by Gallery of Photography Ireland to mark the Centenary of Partition, this ongoing interdisciplinary artists collaboration is Read More
Tensed Muscles is a collaboration between photographic artist Steffi Klenz and rappers Boss B & Brownsilla. Through imagery and music, they explore the relationship between the architectural promise of modernist living; of equality and opportunity, and the reality of living in Maiden Lane, Camden in the 40 years since the estate’s inception.
Steffi Klenz is preoccupied Read More
‘The Decisive Moment’ is what occurs when the visual and psychological elements of people briefly meet in perfect resonance, expressing the essence of that situation. ‘The Decisive Moment’ also happens as the photographer decides to raise their camera, compose the frame and press the button… click. Each photographer follows a different path, each has their Read More
On Friday 7 May 2021 Shutterhub are pleased to welcome Dana Stirling, photographer, curator and the Co-Founder & Editor In-Chief of Float Photo Magazine.
Dear Artist, We Regret to Tell You… – Dana Stirling
As artists we all face that dreaded moment of opening your email to a promising subject line, just to find the words “Dear Read More
Join the Royal Photographic Society for a new series of conversations with recipients of the internationally respected RPS Awards.
They’ve invited photographers and artists working across all genres of image-making, as well as curators, educators, cinematographers and publishers, to discuss their practice and inspirations.
The conversations will be led by those who know the award recipient well Read More
The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present the Living Memory Project’s, The Black Country. This exhibition marks the culmination of a four-year engagement with residents of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton in order to record, archive and celebrate everyday life stories and personal photographic collections.
To talk on record, to tell our life’s story, and Read More
A film by Irene Lusztig
2013, 91 minutes, Color/BW, DVD, English/French, English subtitles
Archival montage, science fiction and an homage to 1970s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. After several years of buying films online and working in historical archives, award-winning Read More
Opened in 1977, the Museum of African Art: the Veda and Dr. Zdravko Pečar Collection in Belgrade, was announced as the only European anticolonial museum. This statement was rooted in the values of solidarity, anticolonialism and anti-racism that were present within the public discourse, tied firmly together in the foreign policy of the Socialist Yugoslavia, Read More
The Bristol Photo Festival and the RPS are hosting a one-day online symposium, curated by Jennie Ricketts. Through the work of photographers and those working within photography it explores themes around diversity and inclusion.
In order for diversity to have real meaning, people of different classes, ethnicity, ability, sexuality should be given equal opportunity for inclusive Read More
A film by Ellie Lobovits.
This intimate and personal documentary follows two women from Ciudad Juárez as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border legally to give birth in Texas, putting their hearts and bodies on the line as they confront harassment at the hands of U.S. border officials.
One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day Read More
Leica are pleased to announce the first annual Leica Women Summit. This tuition-free virtual gathering brings together a community of trailblazing visionaries whose dedication to the art and business of photography is shaping the industry today.
Focused on unlocking new opportunities for others, the Summit is an opportunity to learn from industry leaders in a series Read More
The How To Self Publish a Photobook Workshop is a great opportunity for people interested in publishing their own photography book to discover insider secrets. Workshop participants will be given all the necessary tools and insight that they will need to start self-publishing right away.
The course covers a variety of contemporary publishing models, from the Read More
Made over a period of 6 years, Being Inbetween is a series of powerful photographic portraits of girls aged between ten and twelve, exploring the complex transition between childhood and young adulthood. With many portraits never-before exhibited, this is the most extensive exhibition of the series to date.
Driven by personal experience, award-winning photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn Read More
Gain insight to the research and work of artist Angélica Dass
In a creative practice that constructs archives of personal narratives around race, gender, parenthood, Angélica Dass combines photography and activism to expose ongoing social injustices. In this new public talk, which also celebrates the publication of The Colors We Share (Aperture, 2021), the artist challenges Read More
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with Prestel Publishing, is pleased to present a conversation between leading street photographers Melissa O’Shaughnessy and Gulnara Samoilova, moderated by Aperture senior editor Denise Wolff. Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. In this discussion, they’ll celebrate two publications featuring the work of women in Read More
Autograph presents:
“Join us for an evening exploring what health, healing and liberation practices look like for Black women and non-binary people in the context of late capitalism.
Writer, healing arts practitioner and community organiser Omikemi will perform an excerpt from their collection of spoken word portraits and monologues in an audio-visual collaboration Read More
Cultural Council for Palm Beach County presents a special conversation on photography and feminism by 2021 Biennial curator Aldeide Delgado with artists Katie Prock and Ates Isildak. Delgado will offer insights about the Biennial concept and her curatorial vision through this compelling event, while the artists will respond to questions about their practice and recent accomplishments.
May 22, 2021
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Cultural Read More
Higher Pictures Generation presents an exhibition of new photographic collages by Justine Kurland. This is the artist’s second presentation with the gallery.
In 1967 the radical feminist and writer Valerie Solanas sold copies of her newly authored SCUM Manifesto on the streets of New York’s Greenwich Village, charging $1 ($2 if the buyer was a man). Read More
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and innovative festival that celebrates the power and diversity of photography. They commission and produce national, international solo and group exhibitions in a biannual festival across the city of Bristol. They also run an ongoing national and international programme of talks, events, workshops and training through a partnership model Read More
Kanike are quite excited to collaborate with Aravani Art Project to bring to you a photo based exhibition by the members of The Aravani Art Project – Kathegala Kanive (Valley of Stories). Over the last few months the members of Aravani art project have been learning to narrate their stories using photography and cyanotypes guided Read More
F-Razzor is an artist-run solidarity fundraiser that will take place from the 8th of March till the 15th March 2021. Its aim is to address abuse of power and inequities in the Dutch art field through supporting survivors of sexual abuse and financing initiatives that aid in the prevention of future misconduct. F-Razzor is a reaction to the Read More
The 2021 Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference (CABC) will focus on “The Temperature of Art Book Criticism and Scholarship.” As the scale of participation in and range of approaches to artists’ books and publishing have blossomed in recent years, now is a key time to develop new critical tools for assessing artists’ books and their broader Read More
This panel will address historical and contemporary misconceptions of the female body. Panelists will also delve into the history of women’s reproductive health care and how the fields of gynecology and obstetrics have been shaped by race and class-based discrimination.
Panelists include: OB-GYN and educator Wendy C. Goodall McDonald, MD, aka Dr. Everywoman; Scout Bratt, Outreach Read More
Carmen Winant is an artist and writer based in Columbus, Ohio whose work in Reproductive uses text and images to represent the agency of the female body. Her practice includes collage, installation, and mixed-media to create complex responses that counter representations of women. Carmen Winant has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her piece My Birth (2018) was Read More
Join Loretta J. Ross, Visiting Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, for a special guest presentation on the history of BIPOC reproductive justice and oppression. Professor Ross will share a selection of photographs from the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, as part of a residency and collaboration between Read More
Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities people encounter in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility. The exhibition features eight artists who consider a range of topics including birth, miscarriage, pleasure, the lack of access to abortion, trauma, and the loss of fertility. The term “reproductive” is twofold. Read More
In this on-going series of ‘in conversations’ hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All the speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Anna Read More
2020 was a weird year, to say the least. But, if anything, it truly showed how powerful people can be when they come together to support something they love. Like most people, Rianne Picture’s grand plans were impacted by the pandemic. At first, they were distraught that they had to give up the lovely Read More
Curative Things is a collaborative symposium organised by Thing Power Research Group (LAU), Thinking Through Things (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, supported by Wellcome Trust), and Fashion Research Network.
This symposium focuses on objects at the intersections between art and fashion, health and medicine. Examples might include clothing, prostheses and other wearables: things that have Read More
Arnolfini, Bristol’s international centre of contemporary arts, has announced their revised Winter 2020/2021 exhibition programme, post lockdown, as part of a focus on health and wellbeing.
From 4 December through to 21 February 2021, Arnolfini present a major retrospective of the work of photographer Jo Spence (1934 – 1992), drawn from The Hyman Collection, which is Read More
This year, the annual Discovering Dalmatia international scientific conference organised by Institute of Art History, will take place virtually, over the course of three days, December 3-5.
This year conference, entitled Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation, is inspired by the Institute of Art History’s project Exposition [Ekspozicija]. Themes and Aspects of Croatian Photography from Read More
Latvian National Museum of Art
14.11.20 – 24.01.21
From 14 November 2020 to 24 January 2021, the exhibition “I Remember, Therefore I Am. Unwritten Stories: Women Artists’ Archives” organized by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art will be on display in the 4th floor exhibition halls of the Latvian National Museum of Art. The exhibition will bring Read More
Impressions Gallery invites everyone to Seedscapes Symposium
Dates: 21 November 2020
Time: 2.00pm – 5.30pm (GTM)
Admission: Pay as you feel
Booking: Essential
Why do seeds matter? How can artists and scientists work together? How might photographs catalyse change? Join artists Dornith Doherty, Sant Khalsa, Chrystel Lebas, Heidi Morstang, Read More
Feminist Library Webinar discussing the Feminist Library’s Black History Month Exhibition and Stella Dadzie’s new book
Friday, 30 October 2020
21:00 – 23:00 EET
Online Zoom event, tickets £5 (unwaged £0)
Feminist Library Webinar discussing the Feminist Library’s Black History Month Exhibition and Stella Dadzie’s new book
Join us for a conversation between Lola Olufemi and Stella Dadzie Read More
In this on-going series of ‘in conversations’ hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All the speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Anna Read More
Polly Braden is a documentary photographer whose work features an ongoing conversation between the people she photographs and the environment in which they find themselves. Highlighting the small, often unconscious gestures of her subjects, Polly particularly enjoys long-term, in depth collaborations that in turn lends her photographs a unique, quiet intimacy. Polly has produced a Read More
ONLINE CONFERENCE
24 October 2020
9am – 4.30pm
Free, book in advance
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women will explore the critical work of women writing about, collecting, and curating photography by women.
Key questions include how women’s voices are heard in the history and criticism of photography, the influence of the feminist movement on women photographers’ careers, and the Read More
This exhibition examines social gatherings—connecting individuals and communities.
With the new rule of (6) photographers explore their own archive looking back at a time of gatherings, clubs and protests.
Celebrating the archive, from the 1980s to present, with photographers and artists
Exhibitors include—Josie Barnes, Alex Brattel, Roz Cran, Stuart Griffiths, Sharon Haward, Amanda Jobson, Ian O’Leary, Wai Ho Read More
In 1912 Ernest Jones, a student of Jung published a paper about the lustful fixation of humans towards salt. The salted paper technique was created in the mid-1830s by English scientist and inventor Henry Fox Talbot. The artists at Kanike have been obsessively working with this medium and would love for you to experience the Read More
Why are middle-aged women invisible? Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition When the World Blows Up, I Hope to Go Down Dancing will be on display at Art Hall Gallery from 17 September. The artist addresses the social pressures that accompany women throughout their lives and looks for ways to confront them. The curator of the Read More
“Photography is the art of fixing a shadow” said William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the inventor of photography on paper, to which the Estensi Galleries dedicate, from 12 September 2020 to 10 January 2021, “L imprint of reality. William Henry Fox Talbot. At the origins of photography “. This is the first major Italian retrospective Read More
Four Corners are delighted to announce the Another Eye conference, celebrating the contribution of women refugee photographers who came to Britain after 1933. Presentations will cover these photographers’ work across portraiture, reportage, social documentary and architectural photography, and how the European cultural approaches that they brought with them informed British visual culture. In particular the Read More
As the train departs from Zürich HB, where the iconic Mondaine railway clock hangs above the platform, the passengers are about to enter a world that will awaken their senses and leave them with visual experiences they won’t easily forget. The southbound journey to Lausanne, a city more than 200 kilometers from Zürich, is characterized Read More
Following on from our regular face to face research symposiums in which we share ongoing practice, this is a 2- part online event that will take place on 17th and 24th September 2020 6-7.30pm. Registration is free but you will need to book a place to receive the Zoom links for the sessions. The links Read More
DECOLONISING THE GAZE : ONLINE SYMPOSIUM
Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid, Nilupa Yasmin & Caroline Molloy
10th September
6pm – 8pm
£3 (plus booking fee)
This online event follows on from GRAIN and The New Art Gallery Walsall’s collaboration on the exhibition ‘Too Rich A Soil’ which opened on the 15th November 2019 and closed early due to lockdown. The exhibition presented new Read More
Judith Butler presents a lecture and live Q&A chaired by Amia Srinivasan that draws on her new book, which shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality.
The Force of Nonviolence argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region Read More
A discussion session with scholar and editor of Burn it Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, Breanne Fahs and writer Lola Olufemi, focussing on selected manifestos in this landmark collection spanning four generations of feminist activism and writing. Burn It Down! is a window on historical feminist thought, providing a prompt to consider contemporary activisms.
Manifestos Read More
About The Exhibition:
Exhibition curator: Ximena Echague (Belgium) and Fernanda Pineda (Colombia)
VASA Exhibitions is presenting a series of exhibitions curated by Ximena Echague (Belgium) titled “Magical Realism”. The series will host the work of Latin American Women photographers.
Magical Realism is a Hispano-American literary movement Read More
James Hyman Gallery presents an online exhibition of largely unseen photographs by Shirley Baker selected from the British photographer’s Estate.
The exhibition, which goes live from 22 June to 24 July via the Gallery’s website, includes Baker’s rare colour work as well as a selection of iconic black and white images.
Focusing on Shirley Baker’s celebrated street Read More
SUNDAY, JUNE 7
10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. (ET)
[The discussion will also livestream on the Focus on the Story Facebook page]
Cost: Free
In isolation, collective action through body solidarity never looked so good. Intertwined bodies locked in resistance, fists raised, feet on the ground – these images push against Read More
A conference addressing the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC and non-binary artists.
ArtEZ Arnhem (NL), January 18, 2020
In January 2020 ArtEZ Arnhem organized the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts that dealt with the undeniable under- and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world. Read More
The Paranapiacaba Photography Festival (São Paulo, Brazil) will be officially launched this Wednesday, 06/05, where João Kulcsár will interview visual artist Marilene Ribeiro on the subject “Photography and Socio-environmental Issues” this Wed, 06/05, 22h (BST)
You can access the talk through the live stream via the Festival Instagram account HERE
or by following the direct link.
For Read More
Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain 1933 – 1969 /
Reviewed by Ellie Howard
27.02.20 – 02.05.20
Four Corners / London / England
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“A survey of Jewish émigré photographers, titled Another Eye: women refugee photographers in Britain after 1993, begins with poignancy. Slightly jaundiced and rumpled at the corners, the framed pages of Erika Koch’s album show photographs of relaxed Read More
Special Fundraising Sale. 100% of profits will go to support the National Health Service.
The James Hyman Gallery have put together a selection of works by some of the major photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at reduced prices, and will donate all profits to the National Health Service.
Following the launch last week, they have Read More
Whilst everything is up in the air, Work-Show-Grow is here to support and motivate; encouraging you to learn, create and connect. Work-Show-Grow is hosting a free programme of virtual events over the next four weeks with a packed schedule of artist talks and Live Q&As, positive mental health activities and creative exercises. The programme is Read More
In 2019, the Guildhall Art Gallery appointed Hannah Starkey as Guildhall Artist-in-Residence. The residency aimed to support an artist in the development of new work created in and about the Square Mile. The theme for the inaugural residency was ‘Celebrating City Women’.
For over twenty years Starkey has dedicated her photographic practise to the representation of Read More
On the occasion of Women’s History Month, the Museum of Art & Photography in collaboration with the Bangalore International Centre is hosting a special edition of its lecture series called ‘Women in Art & Culture’ by four Indian women prominent in their respective fields.
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Pushpamala N.: Chronicles of the Phantom Lady: Humour, wit Read More
Velvet Black – Notes is Fleur Olby’s first solo show combining her series ‘Velvet Black’ and ‘Notes’.
Velvet Black is a present-day ode to Victorian plant shows, with black velvet backdrops and their cultivation of indoor-outdoor window theatres. The series started as a photographic notebook of planting a garden, and is resonant of a flower press, Read More
Amak Mahmoodian’s Zanjir (Translation: “chain”) presents a body of photographs that cross great distances – reaching through history to bring the earliest images of Iranian photography into the present, across oceans to invite Mahmoodian’s family and friends; and across the border between life and death.
In 2004, Mahmoodian visited the Golestan museum and undertook an archival Read More
In recognition of International Women’s Day, Richard Saltoun will be screening Helen Chadwick’s Domestic Sanitation, a performance which took place in Brighton in 1976.
In The Latex Glamour Rodeo, five women in grotesque rubber costumes act out bizarre beauty rituals in a kind of beauty salon. The performance is without sound, but a radio show can Read More
Since the beginning of her career in the 1970s, Annegret SOLTAU has championed an experimental approach to art, challenging the conventional notions of representation through performance, photography and collage. While the focus of Soltau’s work never ventures far from the female body and its bodily processes, often incorporating images of herself, at the heart of Read More
Talk: Doris Derby
March 6, 2020, 18.30
Join the American civil rights photographer for this special talk
Known for her work during the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, this is a unique opportunity to hear from activist and documentary photographer Dr Doris Derby. Derby is widely recognised for her explorations of Black history and culture, producing thousands of photographs documenting Read More
Recycling, borrowing, stealing, shamelessly ripping off… artists scavenge. They remix. They find new pathways, links and meanings. They plunder from past or present to create debate. In ‘steal this essay’ Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson poses the question: ‘What imagery is so pervasive that claims of ownership seem facile? And are artists in their ability and need Read More
Our Plastic Ocean, by international award-winning photographer Mandy Barker, addresses the current global crisis of marine plastic pollution. Barker collects debris from shorelines across the world and transforms them into powerful and captivating images. The exhibition, which is traveling from Impressions Gallery where it was conceived, is the first major touring retrospective of her work.
At Read More
Quinn is an installation by photographer, artist and writer Lottie Davies.
It is the fictional story of a young man, William Henry Quinn, who walks from the south west of England to the far north of Scotland in post-Second World War Britain. Although fictional, the work responds to the real-world experiences of young men and women Read More
The role of photography and film has often been relegated to that of illustration, yet its uses – as a visual record, in scientific research, education and travelogues – have been varied and at times ingenious.
From experimentation with technologies in extreme environments (telephoto lenses, glass plate negatives, flashlight photography, chrono-photography, photomicrography, cinematography) to the practices Read More
This Women’s History Month, Four Corners celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
During the 1930s, more than 80,000 refugees came to Britain from Nazi-dominated Europe. Amongst those escaping anti-Semitic and political persecution were a surprising number of women photographers. Often established practitioners, these women brought fresh, modernist Read More
Established in 1981 and situated in its iconic building in Brixton’s Windrush Square since 2014, Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is the only national repository of Black history and culture in the UK.
The unparalleled and growing archive collection offers insight into the history of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain. BCA recognises the importance Read More
TJ Boulting is delighted to present their first solo show with American artist Haley Morris-Cafiero. Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, part spectator, for this latest series ‘The Bully Pulpit’ Haley played cyber bullies at their own game. After being trolled about her appearance when her previous project ‘The Watchers’ went viral, she went about Read More
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM) is delighted to announce that on Wednesday, February 12, 19:00 we will host a public presentation of the projects that have been produced by 7 South Caucasian women photographers – grantees of the program TPMM Multimedia Production Lab Grant 2019.
Among 7 photographers Read More
SERIES AND BOOK LAUNCH: Photography, Place, Environment (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing) presents Coal Cultures by Derrick Price, and Landscapes Between Then and Now by Nicola Brandt.
Photography, Place, Environment publishes original scholarship and critical thinking exploring ways in which photography contributes to, or challenges, narratives relating to geography, environment, landscape and place, historically and now. By critiquing Read More
This paper explores the archival afterlives of photographs of the facially injured and disfigured ex-servicemen of the Great War, focusing on the prolific records of reconstructive surgery and aftercare in military hospitals. From the scientific quest to record and understand these wounds and their treatment, to soldiers’ post-war reintegration, the photographs have struggled to shed Read More
As a response to the current investment in large hydroelectric dams as a basis for Brazil’s ‘sustainable’ economic growth, Costs addresses the impacts these endeavours have had on both the environment and people. Director Marilene Ribeiro surveys three hydro schemes that have happened at different times in Brazil (the past – the Sobradinho dam; the Read More
In association with the exhibition Too Rich a Soil at The New Art Gallery Walsall, the three exhibiting artists; Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid and Nilupa Yasmin will be in discussion with academic and writer Caroline Molloy.
The artists will speak about the shared themes of identity, culture and heritage in their practice. During this event the Read More
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is pleased to announce the largest exhibition to date dedicated to the work of Claudia Andujar. For over five decades, she has devoted her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous group.
Based on four years of research in the photographer’s archive, this new exhibition Read More
A week-long programme featuring panel discussions and a film screening, as well as workshops and courses. From patrons to historians, the Royal Academy of Art celebrate the influential women working to support art and artists.
In this programme of events to mark International Women’s Day 2020, the RA examine the impact women have had on the Read More
A conference that addresses the under-representation and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC and nonbinary artists.
The conference The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts in the Netherlands aims to raise awareness, gather available data and mobilise existing networks and collective knowledge in order to establish a gender equality roadmap in the arts in the Netherlands. With Read More
In Practice: Total Disbelief considers artistic engagements with dimensions of doubt as they contribute to the formation of social life. Across media, the works in the exhibition engage formal tools that uphold belief and produce what we consider to be true – narrative and cinematic tropes, photographic technologies, empiricism, and others – and use them Read More
The Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
London WC1N 1AZ
January 24 – April 26, 2020
Portraying Pregnancy is a major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years.
Until the twentieth century, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant. Despite this, pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. This exhibition brings together images Read More
Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France (CPIF)
107, avenue de la République FR – 77340 Pontault-Combault
January 19 – April 5, 2020
Réversible is the third part of Constance Nouvel’s project. The first part, Atlante, was unveiled at In Situ – fabienne leclerc gallery in Paris and this was followed by Solstice, which was presented at the Le Point du Read More
RAKE is a new visual research collective that uses open source data to investigate and visualise a variety of unseen and obscured subjects across society, business and politics, including human rights violations, government censorship, hidden histories, corruption, surveillance and bureaucratic violence. RAKE pushes the boundaries of traditional photojournalism and reportage, using evolving investigation techniques to Read More
First Women comprises a unique collection of 100 portraits capturing women in the UK who were “first” in their field of achievement. The portraits by photographer Anita Corbin provide inspiration and insight for a new generation of women seeking an understanding of their own roles in a rapidly changing world in which equality is still Read More
When: 13 December 2019, 10:00 — 17:00
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, Keynes Library
A collaboration between Birkbeck Research Centres: the Centre for History and Theory of Photography; the Centre for Architecture, Space & Society and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
This workshop is focused on photography as a tool for representing places where routine or
traumatic violence Read More
When: 11 December 2019, 18:00 — 19:30
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, 106
In the 19th and 20th centuries, countless numbers of photographs were offered and displayed on the walls of churches, forming collections that represent local culture and devotion, as well as the history of photography. The research aims to develop our understanding of the cultural Read More
There are over one-hundred high quality colour photocopies, home computer printouts, and digital files of British photographer Jo Spence’s work held in the collection at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) in Toronto, Canada – the largest repository of her memorial archive. Spence (British, 1934–1992) was a radical London-based activist, socialist-feminist photographer, writer, educator and collaborator Read More
A professional development programme in Manchester for artists, makers and photographers.
Collaboratively developed and delivered by a-n The Artists Information Company, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Craft & Design Centre and Redeye, the Photography Network. Four full-day sessions will be led by arts sector experts, focusing on core business skills: writing, pitching, project management and promotion. In all Read More
First in a series of events aiming to create an informal space for conversation and networking, and an opportunity to learn about national and private collections with some new skills along the way.
This event includes a tour of the photo collection stores at National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, followed by a talk by Read More
In the early history of photography in South Asia it was often the case that the subjects of photographs had their identities thrust upon them rather than being complicit in the act of taking of the photograph and those who were holding the camera were guided by either purposefully political agendas or subconscious bias.
This exhibition Read More
Seen Fifteen is delighted to announce a new exhibition of photography and painting by artists
Dragana Jurišic´ and Catherine McWilliams. REBEL GODDESS brings together works by both artists
that draw inspiration from legends of ancient goddesses as a conduit for comment on contemporary
issues. In Greek mythology, Gaia was the ‘mother’ of Earth who gave birth to the Read More
The Digital Hub Immersive Technology Week takes place from 14th to 20th November and will allow clients of The Digital Hub and the wider community the opportunity to learn about and get hands on experience of the latest in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
There will be a number of workshops and drop-in sessions throughout the Read More
In a special collaboration with Marinella SENATORE and gallery artist Silvia GIAMBRONE, this exhibition brings together two leading artists to explore Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art. Curated by Paola Ugolini, the exhibition is a visual representation of struggle, resistance and growing awareness in the belief that art can trigger a constructive dialogue–overcoming differences in gender, Read More
Catherine McCormack, academic and expert in the field of maternal themes in art, curates a two-part exhibition exploring maternal experience and subjectivity.
The first exhibition explores the idea of ‘matrescence,’ a term developed byanthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973 in an attempt to theorise the transitional period of shifting the body and psyche in the process of Read More
Grey Gallery is a nomadic entity working with artists, writers and musicians on a project by project basis and returns to Eleven Spitalfields, newly reconfigured with a beautiful double height main gallery and retaining the ground floor of the early Georgian townhouse which hosted previous exhibitions since 2010. This new exhibition brings together the work Read More
The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce Photography Now 2019, juried by Maurice Berger and Marvin Heiferman. Featured artists include Cynthia Bittenfield, Martha Díaz-Adam, Maureen R. Drennan, Nona Faustine, Luther Konadu, Sara Macel, Jean L. Sousa and Derrick D. Woods-Morrow.
Today, the search for identity—the need to understand and represent who we are Read More
LUX,
Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London N19 5JF
Sat 19 Oct 2019 / 2-4pm
As part of our current exhibition All You Need’s An Excuse, please join us for a special screening of a recent acquisition by the London Community Video Archive (LCVA), All Work and No Pay, made in 1975 by the Power of Women Read More
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
September 14 – December 15, 2019
A large-scale exhibition of international artists, highlighting the experiences of women and celebrating their triumphs – and showing how the struggle for liberation is ongoing and hard-won.
Just like moons and like suns,
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A Room of Our Own
A Fast Forward Women in Photography Exhibition
17 October–21 December
Mann Island Winter Garden
Outside Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
LOOK Photo Biennial Launch Night
6–8pm, 17 October, Open Eye Gallery
Although great gains have been made in the movement towards gender parity over recent years, there is still far to go. Working Read More
Worldwide, many countries are reinforcing their borders and turning increasingly inwards, but a collective international awareness is also on the rise. Global issues must be tackled from a sense of global belonging; this edition of LOOK Photo Biennial seeks to encourage this belonging. As a medium, photography is equipped for this: images are shareable, accessible Read More
a photography exhibition and live music event to celebrate the work of 20 photographers form around the world.
Wed, 11 September 2019 18:30 – 21:30 BST
Hart’s Lane London SE14
Alongside our second print issue, shado has produced a 3-month photography project with 18 photographers around the world where each photographer has responded to the brief I AM Read More
Higher Pictures is pleased to present Susan Lipper’s Domesticated Land, her third show with the gallery. Preceded by Grapevine (1988−92) and trip (1993−99) and following a thirteen-year hiatus, Domesticated Land – begun in 2012 and continuing into the present day – brings Lipper’s familiar feminist, utopian-seeker persona further West into the California desert.
Her meticulously composed Read More
STREET / FORM investigates photography’s relationship with the urban landscape and street culture. The juxtaposition of shape and form, the encounters with the unknown, the intimacy with strangers. 70 photographers from around the world find inspiration in the street.
Shutter Hub have teamed up with one of the most exciting street art festivals in the world, and have Read More
FAST FORWARD: HOW DO WOMEN WORK?
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT TATE MODERN
30 November 2019, 10.30–17.00
1 December 2019, 10.30–18.00
2 December 2019, 10.30–14.00
Please join our conference to discuss how the framing of photographic practice can be reimagined. Following two inspiring international conferences about the role of Women Photographers, held at Tate Modern in 2015 and National Gallery of Art in Lithuania Read More
Tickets are now available for the BOP Bristol 19 programme of artist talks.
BOP Bristol 19 is a brand new photobook festival hosted by Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society at Paintworks, Bristol.
The festival brings together a diverse range of photobook publishers and sellers from the UK and Europe providing an opportunity for photographers Read More
Photographs by Czech photographer Markéta Luskačová taken on the North East coast of Britain in the late 1970s will go on display at the Martin Parr Foundation to coincide with the first publication of this series of work by RRB Photobooks.
“I was thirty-two when I saw the northern sea for the first time. It was Read More
Finnish Museum pf Photography
Discussion “Women in Art: Is it all about talent?”
Wednesday August 28 at 5.30pm – 8pm.
The question of talent is often mentioned as justifying the absence of women in art exhibitions. But is it all about talent?
The photographers Marie Docher (FR), Karen Knorr(UK), Elina Brohterus (FI) and Hertta Kiiski (FI) participate in the discussion. The Read More
Portraits change the way we understand one another. Whether this is professional photos, selfies on Instagram or snapshots of our friends, the photos that we take of ourselves and each other speak volumes about who we are and who we want to be.
Through portraits, we come face to face with someone else: they create a Read More
Her Ground at Flowers Gallery in London uses landscape as a thematic focus to consider relationships between genre and gender. The term landscape, a principle category in Western art, is used in relation to the visible features of an area of land, often depicting human relationships to place and the environment. This exhibition looks at the specificity of viewpoint, addressing the Read More
Curated by Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, Resist: be modern (again) at John Hansard Gallery explores the practices of women artists, designers and writers of the 1920s and 30s through the work of contemporary artists.
These early pioneering women were important ground breakers for their time, many of their ideas are reverberating until today. Their battles against Read More
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.
Let’s change that.
Join members of Read More
Transformative Moments
Williamson Art Gallery
Slatey Road, Birkenhead,
Wirral, CH43 4UE
15 June – 26 July 2019
Photographer Stephanie Wynne and women from Wirral Change, a BME outreach centre,
present ‘Transformative Moments’ at the Williamson Art Gallery this June.
The women came together during 2018 to mark and celebrate the centenary of the crucial point in British history when some women Read More
An exhibition of photography reflecting on the work of women in the 21st century and celebrating 145 female-identifying photographers from around the world curated and presented by Shutterhub in partnership with Festival Pil’Ours.
145 female photographers, 435 images, from across 15 different countries. It’s Time To Think and Shutterhub are proud to be taking this inclusive Read More
100 Years Opening of the Berlin Art Academy for Women
Exhibition from June 17, 2019 to October 13, 2019
Schloss Biesdorf, Alt-Biesdorf 55, Berlin
with Birgit Bellmann (graphic print), Alke Brinkmann (painting), Ines Doleschal (collage), Else (Twin) Gabriel (photography, video, painting), Ellen Kobe (performance, installation), Coco Kühn (installation), Petra Lottje (video, drawing), Seraphina Lanz (wall piece, object), Cornelia Renz Read More
In collaboration with Salusbury World Refugee Centre and London College of Communication 20:20 focuses on the visual re-telling of 20 oral histories collected from 20 refugees who came to the UK 20 years ago.
This multi-media experience focuses on stories of homeland, adaptations to exile and celebration of resilience from refugees who came to the UK Read More
Beyond the Perfect Image
15 June 2019—16 June 2019
What you’ll do
Join us to celebrate ageing and reflect on illness through a programme of performances, screenings and discussions about what defines a healthy body.
On Saturday, take part in a programme of events including stand-up comedy, singing from St Christopher’s Hospice Community Choir, screening of artists’ films and Read More
A Photo Lab talk with Marilene Ribeiro at Goldsmiths University of London.
Marilene’s book “Dead Water” has just been shortlisted for the “Arles 2019 LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD”, winners to be announced on the 4th July.
Dead Water tells the story of dams and hydropower from the perspectives of the people who have been affected Read More
From the volume Feminist Issues in Contemporary Art (1979) to the publications of several interviews with artists including Laurie Anderson, Tracey Emin, Rose Garrard, Susan Hiller, Mary Kelly, Tina Keane, Georgina Starr, Mona Hatoum, Runa Islam, Silvia C. Ziranek (to mention just a few) Audio Arts Magazine featured a significant and diverse spectrum of women’s Read More
For the annual Photo London keynote, The National Portrait Gallery are pleased to announce Dutch documentary photographer Dana Lixenberg (Amsterdam, 1964). She joins Magda Keaney, Senior Curator, Photographs to discuss her recently exhibited series American Images, which comprises a selection of portraits of American icons who have been instrumental in shaping today’s popular culture. Many Read More
The 23rd edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography continues until June 2. With 27 exhibitions and 21 artists, it explores the unusual theme of “flood,” or inundation and overflow. While this theme is explored in the works included in this year’s edition, it can also be seen in the whole festival programme, which keeps Read More
AWITA has partnered with Photo London to present “The photographer and her subject: do women see things differently?”. This will take the form of a discussion, moderated by Charlotte Jansen in which contemporary female photographers Mary McCartney, Hannah Collins and Juno Calypso will share three images of their work; they will then discuss with Maryam Read More
First Women comprises a unique collection of 100 portraits capturing women in the UK who were “first” in their field of achievement. The portraits by photographer Anita Corbin provide inspiration and insight for a new generation of women seeking an understanding of their own roles in a rapidly changing world in which equality is still Read More
MARIA KAPAJEVA
DREAM IS WONDERFUL, YET UNCLEAR
Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga
May 16 – June 30, 2019
Opening: May 16th, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: May 28th, 6pm
Latvian Museum of Photography is pleased to present a solo exhibition of an Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva Dream Is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, which opens on May 16th. The exhibition is part of Riga Read More
AUTOGRAPH presents two exhibitions
26 APRIL – 17 AUGUST 2019
LONDON: AUTOGRAPH
CURATED BY RENÉE MUSSAI AND BINDI VORA
Lola Flash
[SUR]PASSING
Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, photographer Lola Flash’s work challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual, and racial preconceptions.
Her art and activism are profoundly connected, fuelling a life-long commitment to visibility and preserving Read More
From the end of March 2019, until the end of the year, the view of Boston Harbour and a view across Sheffield towards Park Hill and the Cholera Monument are being transmitted live via network cameras simultaneously.
Each image is being constructed pixel by pixel from the top left to the bottom right hand corner of Read More
Milla Talassalo’s exhibition is a study of triplet sisterhood. In the exhibition, entitled 3, Talassalo examines individuality and her own identity in relation to her sibling counterparts.
It is difficult to explain triplet sisterhood. The finest aspect is the phenomena of feeling, periodically, understood without words. For Talassalo, her sisters’ worries are her worries, and their Read More
The exhibition Dry Joy by Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja presents a selection of her works from a period of more than ten years. Susiraja creates candid and honest photographs and videos with a sense of warmth and humour. Although she appears in the works herself, they are not simply self-portraits but rather performances for the Read More
Victoria J. Dean and Sharon Murphy share a concern with landscape and with interventions in the landscape: built structures that emanate ambiguous force or presence; and semi-allegorical child-figures who are sited or staged in different natural settings. Dean’s practice explores the human propensity to rationalise space, in the context of place and landscape, while Murphy’s Read More
Over half a century has passed since the publication of Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto. Taking its cue from Chiara Fumai’s rendering of the radical feminist manifesto, this panel discussion attempts to unpack the complexities of being a non-male artist and the ways feminism can act as an antidote in an inherently patriarchal art system.
The panel, Read More
In partnership with The Childhood Trust, Bedrooms of London presents a new body of work by photographer Katie Wilson highlighting the damaging consequences for children arising from the shortage of social housing in London. Focusing on the spaces in which children are sleeping, the photographs are shown alongside first-hand narratives from families collected and written Read More
From March 2019, Richard Saltoun Gallery is dedicating 100% of its programme to women. This 12-month programme is part of the gallery’s long-standing commitment to supporting under-recognised and under-represented female artists. 100% Women aims to protest the gender inequality that persists in the art world and encourage wider industry action through debate, dialogue and collaboration.
Today Read More
Pen + Brush celebrates over a century of being the only non-profit in New York exclusively devoted to the showcasing and support of women contemporary artists and writers with their inaugural exhibition
Furies, Fairies, Visionaries. This exhibition features works by thirty artists utilizing the visual languages of both fantasy and abstraction to claim and create space. Addressing gender, Read More
The upcoming exhibition at The Lightbox gallery and museum, Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers (30 January 2019 – 2 June 2019) will feature around 70 works including Turner Prize winners and nominees and Venice biennale exhibitors such as Helen Sear, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Collins, Gillian Wearing and Jane and Louise Wilson. The works featured will Read More
Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition showcasing her video work Test Shooting opens at CBS Digital Artspace in Copenhagen, Denmark January 15- February 15 with Artist Talk February 1st from 3-5pm.
Test Shooting focuses on the interaction between the sexes testing the absurdities of the stereotypical presentation of female attractiveness.
Test Shooting won the Runner-Up award at FOKUS Video Art Read More
The Lightbox gallery and museum is delighted to welcome back the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham for an exhibition showcasing the very best artwork from MFA photography students. The UCA photography department has a reputation for educating some of the most innovative photographers of our time. This exhibition will offer visitors a unique Read More
For its first regional event of South Caucasus Moving Museum of Photography that will take place on Wednesday, December 5th in Yerevan, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum partners with AGBU Armenia and 4plus agency.
A collection of slideshows by contemporary Georgian, regional and international photographers will be screened in the program of the Moving Museum of Read More
As a final instalment of their series ‘the Female Gaze’, Photo London is delighted to present a screening of ‘A Much Better Illusion’ by Chloe Sheppard alongside a conversation with Ione Gamble of Polyester zine.
For this evening event, there will be a screening of Chloe’s first film ‘A Much Better Illusion’, after which Read More
As part of their ongoing series ‘The Female Gaze’, Photo London is delighted to present this conversation, which will explore the use of Instagram as a platform for social change.
For this evening event, Hannah Watson, the director of TJ Boulting Gallery will moderate a discussion between Eliza Hatch, artist and founder Read More
This paper explores what it might mean for historians to take seriously the shared history of firearms and cameras, two technologies that co-evolved in the 19th century and that have had a profound impact on society ever since. As David Campbell writes, “the technologies of the gun and camera…evolved in lockstep.” (Campbell 2012; Landau 2002; Read More
The worlds of art and fashion merged in the 1980s on the pages of illustrated magazines. Since the early 1990s, fashion photographs have migrated effortlessly between the art field and the commercial field, between being considered personal works or assignments limited by the ideas and wants of designers, brands and fashion publications. An important material Read More
We are pleased to announce the opening of the FIF_BH exhibition “Shared Spaces of the Imagens” in the Photo Gallery of the Centro Cultural Fiesp, in the city of São Paulo. The opening event will take place on November 6 at 19h30.
Idealization / Curated: Bruno Vilela and Gui Cunha
Participating Artists Read More
The new photographic work of the Greek-German artist Christina Dimitriadi be shown at the ISLAND HOPING exhibition , presented by the City of Athens Cultural, Sports and Youth Organization, in the Arts Center from 9 November 2018 to 3 February 2019. An opening event is planned for 8pm on 9th November 2018.
The exhibition is the first individual presentation of the artist in a public institution Read More
Discover the extraordinary breadth of the V&A’s photography collection, which has been growing and evolving since the 1850s, and was recently augmented by the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society collection.
From early daguerreotypes to contemporary digital images, This two day conference explores the history of photography through the lens of collecting and considers Read More
#LaPartDesFemmes
invited by
PARIS PHOTO
A MANIFESTO FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
The collective #LaPartdesFemmes, committed to support both the visibility and recognition of female photographers, will unveil their Manifesto for Photography initiated by Marie Docher on 8th November during PARIS PHOTO 2018, the largest international art faire dedicated to photography.
Shortly after the publication of our open letter to the director of the Rencontres d’Arles Read More
Join Chloe Dewe Mathews as she presents her new monograph in conversation with curator Sarah Allen
Caspian: The Elements is Chloe Dewe Mathews’s record of five years spent roaming the borderlands of the Caspian Sea. In a resource-rich region roiled by contested geopolitics, Dewe Mathews found that elemental materials like oil, rock, and uranium are central to Read More
WOMEN, THE EXCEPTION AN UNDER-REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN PHOTOGRAPHY?
Organised by Fannie ESCOULEN
Thursday 8 November
AUDITORIUM – LEVEL 1
The invention of photography has paved the way for new professional, social and creative conquests. Amateurs and the curious hurried to manipulate the medium, in search of experimentation and discovery. Women, finding it a means of expression and personal Read More
Tue 30 Oct 12-1pm
Get to know our artist in residence Chinar Shah and curator in residence Zuzana Jakalová at our Residency Social.
Shah joins Bluecoat from Bangalore for the first of her two-part residency in partnership with Bluecoat, Hope University, FACT and AHRC. She is interested in the power dynamics of the internet, cyberfeminism and women’s experiences of race, caste Read More
I’M HOME brings together the works of Black British Female Photographers who explore the ideas of the home and family. The aim of the show is to collectively present the work of both established and emerging photographers in purpose-designed space that allows the viewer to experience an aspect of the lives of the artists well as the works.
Featuring the Read More
The Bravest Little Street in England – A memorial to the lost men of Chapel Street by local artist Carole Evans
At: AIR Gallery, 30 Grosvenor Road, Altrincham, WA14 1LD, 14 November – 25 November 2018
Private View; 13 November, 6pm – 9pm
Panel discussion with artist: Saturday 17 November, 11am
The Bravest Little Street in England is a solo exhibition by Read More
Sabeena Gadihoke’s talk will focus on a recent curatorial project titled Light Works, which explored the oeuvre of photographer Jitendra AryaSabeena Gadihoke’s talk will focus on a recent curatorial project titled Light Works, which explored the oeuvre of photographer Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Bengaluru during 2017-18
Booking for this Read More
Friday 30 November: 14.00 – 17.30 Talk & Panel Discussion / 18.00 – 21.00 Evening Networking Event
The networking evening event is available for those with a dual symposium ticket only.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
To open the up the dialogue on one of our key themes Year Of The Woman we invite you to Read More
Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries, Britain 1750 – 1950
Saturday 9 February 2019, 9.30am – 5.30pm
This symposium adds to the growing body of feminist scholarship that is deconstructing the male-dominated history of commercial and industrial artistic production. The programme will bring together current interdisciplinary perspectives on women’s experiences of work and the gendered Read More
London College of Communication is delighted to welcome Professor Karen Knorr to deliver the Royal Photographic Society Inaugural Women in Photography Lecture. Karen will be in conversation with Anna Fox after the lecture followed by a short break before a panel discussion to mark the occasion of the Women in Photography inaugural lecture, featuring Poulomi Basu, Natasha Caruana, Read More
Focus Kazakhstan: Post-nomadic Mind, London
at the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London,
19 September-16 October 2018.
Evening Discussion on Thursday 27 September, 7pm.
Professor Katy Deepwell, editor KT press/n.paradoxa, and artists Almagul Menlibaveva and AselKadyrkhanova.
They will discuss the role and development of female artists in post-soviet countries, looking particularly at the Kazakh art scene. As well as Read More
The Photographers’ Gallery, 2-5pm
This timely discussion builds upon an increasing focus on the practise of and positions held by women in photography, with the aim of addressing aspects of life and society beyond art and gender divisions, in our current #MeToo climate.
In both looking back and towards the future, this event reflects upon the images used for the #MeToo Read More
As you will be aware, Dr Shahidul Alam was arrested, tortured and imprisoned in Dhaka Bangladesh at the beginning of August. Shahidul is an internationally respected photographer, journalist and activist and a good friend and colleague to many of us working in the photography and the academic worlds here in the UK.
University of Sunderland, where Read More
Founders Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu discuss their project MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora is a publication and platform committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent. The inaugural issue featured over 100 women photographers from across the Diaspora.
Ahead of the Read More
National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje
3 July – 28 August, 2018
‘Why Have There Been No Great (wo)Men Artists?’ is the first in the series of regional exhibitions that are being organised as a part of the ‘Perceptions’ programme. The exhibition showcases pieces that are a part of the British Council collection of UK art, as well Read More
First Women comprises a unique collection of 100 portraits capturing women in the UK who were “first” in their field of achievement.
The portraits by photographer Anita Corbin provide inspiration and insight for a new generation of women seeking an understanding of their own roles in a rapidly changing world in which equality is still an Read More
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art are pleased to present Women by Women, as part of the Idea of North season. Curated by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, this intimate collection explores the representation of women and girls in the North East of England by women photographers, moving back and forward through time, between the 1970s and the present.
For Read More
Exhibition opening: Sun 24 June 2018, 1.00-4.00pm
Performance night: Thu 5 July, 7.00-9.00pm ‘What does it mean to wear Hannya’ Storytelling by Laura Sampson, Shamisen play by Yui Shikakura
Exhibition continues until 29 July 2018.
Wiebke Leister’s research investigates the nature of photographic portraiture beyond the limits of individual likeness – focussing on representations of faciality in relation to its facial Read More
A collaborative symposium
Four Corners with History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, Birkbeck
Thursday 28 June 2018, 2.00-6.00pm followed by drinks
Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury
Room to be confirmed
This event accompanies the Radical Visions exhibition at Four Corners Gallery, and the launch of its new digital archive. It will consider Camerawork’s engagement, role and influence with community-practice, feminism and representation, and ask Read More
Opening: Thu 5th July 18:30 – FREE ENTRY ( Pls book via Eventbrite)
18:30 – 19:10 – Panel Discussion with:
Marilene Ribeiro – photographer and researcher, Brazil/UK
Sue Branford – journalist, BBC, Latin America Bureau, and Mongabay, UK
Anna Fox – photographer and professor, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Chair: Alícia Bastos, Braziliarty, Brazil/UK
19:10 – 19:30 – Film Read More
Over 20 photographers representing several generations of artists throughout the last 3 centuries, highlighting Georgia’s very rich and complex history of photography. The exhibition “In and Out of Reality” is divided in two volumes. Volume I covers the period starting from the end of 19th century – the debut of the history of photography in Read More
We are very happy to invite to the talk with Clare Strand at the Silencio (http://silencio-club.com) on Wednesday, April, 25th, at 7 PM.
Autograph ABP
London, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA
27 APRIL – 7 JULY 2018
Opening on April 26th, 6.30 – 8.30PM (please RSVP on their website)
In I Am Now You – Mother, Marcia Michael visualises the act of matrilineage through the body of her mother, Myrtle McKnight.
Michael uses photography and oral history to retrieve lost and Read More
The venue
Out of the Blue, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG
Open Monday- Saturday 10am-5pm / Closed Sundays
The exhibition
Nevertheless, She Persisted
May 8th – 18th 2018
Open daily and free to all
The project was released online on March 8th 2018 to coincide with International Women’s Day and will now be 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
VII Photo Agency presents a round table with the seven women of VII: Anush Babajanyan, Linda Bournane Engelberth, Jessica Dimmock, Ilvy Njiokiktjien, Maggie Steber, Nichole Sobecki. Moderated by Sara Terry.
Will be live-streamed here: https://www.facebook.com/CFDbcn
Gender, sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement have sparked one of the most intense debates of recent years. How does Read More
The solo exhibition of new work by Clare Strand, titled The Discrete Channel with Noise, is featuring photography, painting, machinery and sound installation. The works on display are set in our time when the misinterpretation, mismanagement and misrepresentation of information – whether deliberate or accidental – has an ever-increasing and overwhelming effect on our everyday Read More
Our next Geekender is coming 16 – 18 March!
In collaboration with UAL Futures’ Feminist Internet Project we will be speculating on issues of power, gender and technology with a weekend of events, workshops and experimentation.
Friday night will kick off with a panel on “Tomorrow’s Nipple: censorship, subversion and social media” about the control of images Read More
Switzerland’s 1816 ‘year without a summer’, which provided the backdrop for the conception of Frankenstein, was part of a three-year period of severe climate deterioration. Chloe Dewe Mathews returned to the glaciers 200 years later, and the resulting photographs explore the environmental and social issues of our time through the themes of Mary Shelley’s novel.
Details
Where: Read More
In Jean Cocteau’s post war film Orphée (1950) there is a beguiling moment when the then modern day Orpheus, standing in front of a full length framed mirror in his room, slides his hand through his own reflection. This once hard glassy impermeable surface becomes viscoelastic, transmutes into liquid; the ragile portal through which Orpheus moves into a parallel Read More
There and not there
Curated by Sarah McAvera
Absence is the connecting quality of two otherwise very different artists, Victoria J Dean and Sharon Murphy. With a background in theatre, Murphy’s photographs have the aura of a stage set, with the landscape in some ways acting as a curtain, covering up the story behind. While some works Read More
Annual Huntley (un)Conference 2018
Recent developments over the past few years seem to indicate that ‘we are moving on up’ or moving out of the frame – so are Black artists and curators experiencing a watershed moment with Blackness? With the advance copies of the No Colour Barlegacy book* published on 24th February, Read More
Photography sets the image free
Michelle Henning
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Location: University of West London, St Mary’s Road, Ealing
Date: Wednesday 7 March 2018
Time: Registration 6pm. Lecture commences 6.30pm
Free Admission: All welcome.
Photography is commonly understood as a static medium that “freezes” the moment. This characterisation of photography privileges certain kinds of practice, draws a sharp distinction between it and Read More
Private view: Wednesday 14 February 6-8pm
15 February – 31 March 2018
Curated by Paola Ugolini, Women Look At Women explores feminine identity through the work of thirteen internationally renowned women artists. In this inaugural exhibition at Richard Saltoun’s new gallery in Dover Street, each of the works on show reflects a different aspect of the relationship Read More
Presented at 24 Jor Bagh, “Mutations – Indo French image encounters” is a large-scale contemporary exhibition that will showcase the works of 16 photographers from both France and India : Anouck Durand, Baptiste Rabichon, Charles Freger, François Burgun, Laetitia d’Aboville, Marion Gronier,Philippe Petremant, Thierry Fontaine and Yannick Cormier, Anshika Verma, Asmita Parelkar, Dhruv Malhotra, Indu Antony, Sohrab Read More
Susan Meiselas
Mediations
Concorde, Paris
The retrospective devoted to the American photographer Susan Meiselas (b. 1948, Baltimore) brings together a selection of works from the 1970s to the present day.
A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Susan Meiselas questions documentary practice. She became known through her work in conflict zones of Central America in the 1970s and 1980s Read More
Photoforum Pasquart presents:
Seevorstadt 71
CH–2502 Biel / Bienne
Adrian Sauer (January 28 – April 15)
Adrian Sauer (*1976, lives and works in Leipzig, DE) explores in his photographs the foundations of a medium which, since its beginnings, has seen changes like no other medium.
Dorothée Elisa Baumann (January 28 – April 15)
In her artistic practice, Dorothée Elisa Baumann (*1972, Read More
This collaborative programme led by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) brings together five distinct art organisations across the UK, to show a diverse range of art works and new commissions from some of the most exciting female artists working in mainland China.
NOW explores how the diversity of current female artistic practice transcends notions of Read More
Thursday 8th February
5.30pm: Artist’s Talk, Free admission, seating limited.
6.30pm: Official Launch
8.00pm: Outdoor projection event
My Own Unknown, is an on-going series of work by Dublin-based photographer Dragana Jurišić. A very personal exhibition, the work addresses the complexities of exile, politics and betrayal together with family history. Organised into 5 chapters, the work opens out to explore important universal Read More
This exhibition showcases important materials from the archive of the late Jo Spence, British photographer, writer, and self-described ‘cultural sniper’, tracing links and collaborations in activist art, radical publications, community photography and phototherapy from the 1970s and 1980s. Consistent with Spence’s ethos of radical pedagogy, this exhibition focuses on her collaborative working methods. It opens Read More
Six contemporary art commissions highlight the progression towards equality through the stories of the women who have contributed to the spirit & history of Knole. Artists include Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emiy Speed, Melanie Wilson, and Alice May Williams.
KNOLE HOUSE, SEVENOAKS, KENT, TN15 0RP
17 MAY – 14 NOVEMBER 2018
For more information Read More
Join Francis Hodgson in an exploration of the work and practice of photographer Maryam Eisler. Eisler will be presenting her latest project Voices East London (2017) which features a series of striking images from the streets of East London- the City’s “creative ghetto” known for spearheading the UK’s biggest population rise over the past decade. Read More
Tribe is a collaborative exhibition of photography by mid-career professional artists. Their work is a narrative, addressing issues of family, history, love and loss. The artists are a group of women from all over the US.
Please see direct link for more information.
Exhibition Dates: January 25 – March 27, 2017
Location: Pen + Brush, 29 E. 22nd St., NYC
Press Preview: Thursday, January 25, 12–3 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 25, 6–8 p.m.
Pen + Brush inaugurates its 2018 exhibition program with the first comprehensive view of photographic work by Lola Flash. A fixture in the New York City art scene, 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
Galerie im Körnerpark: 4 November 2018 – 21 January 2018
nGbK: 2 December 2017 – 21 January 2018
Closed on: 24/25 and 31 Dec as well as 1 Jan
Exhibition, Booklet, Events
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Maria Thereza Alves, Hasan Aksaygın & Aykan Safoğlu, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro & Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Antye Greie aka AGF, Rajkamal Read More
Acclaimed photographer, Trish Morrissey brings two brand new bodies of work to the Hestercombe Gallery, inspired by the last female occupants of Hestercombe House, Miss Warre (1790-1872) and Mrs Portman (1854-1951) who both independently ran the Hestercombe estate.
Crossing the disciplines of performance and photography and playing with notions of fact/fiction and time/history Morrissey’s work creates Read More
Join us for our first major survey of artists’ films, performances for the camera, critical writing, podcasts and limited editions by women artists from over 30 countries featured in our Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art since 2005.
Discover works reflecting the diverse artists’ interest in issues of memory and migration, dance and drama, films and Read More
No Man’s Land offers rarely-seen female perspectives on the First World War, featuring images taken by women who worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, and official photographers, as well as contemporary artists directly inspired by the conflict. Commemorating the First World War Centenary, No Man’s Land features photographs by three women of the epoch, alongside three women making work Read More
Join artists, photographers and researchers for our annual conference focusing on cities and urban spaces
For its tenth year anniversary, under the theme of ‘Cartographies’, this two-day event explores how we make sense of places through visual, sonic and photographic representations, across a variety of global contexts. Bringing together a wide range of international artists, urban Read More
With Performing Afrotopia, Marie-Ann Yemsi, offers in collaboration with Kettly Noël an Afrotopia evening event, an abstract chapter of the Pan-African exhibition that explores the advantageous links between images, dance and performance. It will feature artists and collectives Rachel Monosov and Admire Kamudzengerere, Transcultural Protocol, Nelisiwe Xaba and Kettly Noël, The Impossible Dance.
The Ciné Mobile Read More
Fast Forward: Women in Photography – Lithuanian Edition
3 – 4 November, 2017
National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Building on the success of the Fast Forward conference at Tate Modern in 2015, co-organised by Tate, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) along with Photography Archive Research Centre (PARC) at University of the Arts London, Lithuanian Photographers Association and Read More
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
BRACHA invites you to the private view of an exhibition of photography and video art highlighting hereditary cancer
Curated by Tamar Arnon & Eli Zagury
Exhibition dates: 22nd – 26th September 2017
Rosenfeld Porcini gallery
37 Rathbone Street, London W1T 1NZ
Galllery opening hours:
10am – 6pm Sat: 11am – 6pm (free entry)
Sunday 24th September 2017 6pm – 9pm
The evening will include a presentation by BRACHA’s 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
London-based Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva’s largest solo exhibition thus far, entitled The Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, is opening at Narva Art Residency.
As part of the Tallinn Photomonth programme, London-based Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva returns to Narva Art Residency with a solo exhibition studying the social legacy of Krenholm. For 150 years, Krenholm – the Read More
Brooklyn Museum, NY USA
APRIL 21–SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia Gallery of Contemporary Art, 4th Floor
Focusing on the work of black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. Read More
ZANELE MUHOLI:
SOMNYAMA NGONYAMA, HAIL THE DARK LIONESS
In her first solo exhibition in London, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi (b 1972) presents her ongoing self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama.
In more than 60 photographs Muholi uses her body as a canvas to confront the politics of race and representation in the visual archive.
Taken primarily in Europe, North America Read More
Dis/Obedient Women Exhibition
curated by Sari Patnaik
in association with Art Night London 2017
in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery
Opening July 1 6-12pm
Kobi Nazrul Centre, 30 Hanbury Street, London E1 6QR
The Place is Here presents work by over twenty black artists and collectives working in 1980s Britain. Shown across the South London Gallery and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, the exhibition spans painting, film, photography and archival material from this pivotal decade in British culture and politics.
The Place is Here evokes some of the Read More
New Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices
International Workshop
Humboldt University of Berlin
16, 17 and 18 June 2017
This three-day workshop gathers international scholars and artists. From different disciplinary perspectives that include art histories, architecture, geography and archeology, speakers addresses the many pressing questions that representations of natural and man-made landscapes bring into focus: the national identity Read More
Venue: Middlesex University, Grove Building, Hendon Campus, The Burroughs, Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT, UK.
Date: Monday 3 July 2017, 11-6pm.
This event is open to artists, academics and curators interested in feminism and contemporary art.
Katy Deepwell (founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal and Professor of Read More
Between 1985 and 1990, London based artist Marysia Lewandowska recorded over 200 hours of audio with artists and academics, ranging from private conversations to public events. The Women’s Audio Archive began life as a fictional institute, invented as a way of approaching key female figures in the arts, becoming a valuable reflection of their politics and Read More
Female Photographers
The Jubilee Conference of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography (MAFOT) at the Petőfi Literary Museum and the Hungarian National Museum
The ten-year-old Hungarian Society for the History of Photography invites researchers interested in the history of photography to think together. At the conference in May 2017, the presentations Read More
Photography & the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at the London College of Communication invites you to the opening of The Other Observers: Women’s Photography in Britain – materials from the Val Williams Archive.
Curated by PARC Graduate Associates Ana Ascobar and Jacqui Taylor as part of the Moose on the Loose outreach programme.
Women in Photography the Read More
HEWING WITTARE present a 3 woman show with Chudamani Clowes, Rebecca Glover and Anna Liber Lewis entitled ‘Shapeshifting – tactics to combat drowning’ as part of the E17 Art Trial 2017.
Saturday, June 10 – 2pm
As two Jerwood Gallery exhibitions featuring women artists overlap (Jean Cooke and Eileen Agar), we are delighted to welcome curators and authors of A Woman’s Place Project Day+Gluckman, artist Jessica Voorsanger and Tate Curator and art historian Carol Jacobi to the gallery, to discuss the complex relationship of a woman artist to her personal biography.
The panel Read More
L E N S T H I N K Y O R K S H I R E
Thursday May 11th will see the very first social for Lens Think Yorkshire, A bimonthly
social in Yorkshire to meet, share work, ideas, & develop photography in
the North. The night will see Al Palmer of Read More
Reflecting on Charlotte Salomon
An Exhibition and Study Day at the Women’s Art Library organised by Goldsmith University of London
Study Day : 15.05.2017, 11.00-18.00
Special Collections Reading Room
The event is free of charge, but booking is required.
Exhibition: 01.05.2017-31.05.2017
Special Collections Foyer
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), a German-Jewish artist who was killed Read More
Diffusion 2017 looks at REVOLUTION in its widest context, investigating through the prism of photography and lens-based media social change, freedom of expression, popular protest, human rights and the pursuit of utopias.
The Diffusion conference focuses on two key issues, with contributions from exhibiting artists, architects, designers, cultural theorists and committed urbanists.
Building the Revolution examines artist involvement 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
Thu, April 27, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM BST
Helen Cammock works with moving image, photography, text, performance and installation. Within these various forms is her underlying interest and aim to consider how societal dissonance, that exists between the individual and collective experience embodies consequences of structural inequality.
Ideas around authorship and the appropriation, exchange, interruption and Read More
Talk: “Women Rebels, Women Poets”
by Marta Gili, Director, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
LOCATION:
HU Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal 3075, Humboldt University of Berlin
24 May 2007, 18:00
Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte (IKB) der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
In this talk Marta Gili looks at the work of women photographers of the first 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.
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Karen Knorr – Europe and India
Danziger Gallery
95 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
For our third solo show of photographs by Karen Knorr, the gallery is presenting a selection of her constructed animal scenarios taken in both Europe and India. Shot between 2003 and 2016 in various European museums and stately homes and in Indian palaces and Read More
UNA Y OTRA (ONE AND ANOTHER)
Curator: Rodrigo Orrantia
Carrera 5 # 26C – 40
Bogotá Colombia
Opening: Saturday 22 April
April-May 2017
This exhibition brings together the recent work of women artists who work with photography and video around the theme of identity and place. In the Read More
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
University of Brighton
School of Media
Edward Street Campus Lecture Theatre
28th Apr 2017 1:00pm-5:30pm
Nostalgia is a recurring theme of contemporary popular film, television and digital media. Reboots and remakes, sequels and spin-offs fill our screens. DVD box sets repackage old shows as new products. Digital techniques recreate the look of celluloid, old photography and early cinema, as Read More
Gestures of Resistance aims to respond to our current general mood of political anxiety and alienation by opening up socio-political critique in order to resist the palpable feeling of disempowerment. Rather than accepting the non-choice of the neoliberal setup of Greece or current right-wing politics both in America and Europe, the artists of Gestures of Read More
Under the Dark Cloth: Working with Photography Studio Archives is an International one-day symposium at QUAD, Derby, presented to coincide with the exhibition People, Places, and Things: the W. W. Winter’s Archive, on show at Derby Museum during FORMAT17.
Commercial photography studios were once common sights on almost every high street. Each has Read More
photographies journal was first published in 2007 to initiate theoretical and critical discussion of photography in local and global contexts.
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, photographies journal is holding a two-day conference. Bringing together a range of international speakers, it promises to be a defining event, engaging and interrogating the contemporary condition and currency of the Read More
Four Corners is delighted to invite you to the opening of The Partisan Coffee House exhibition, which tells the fascinating story of London’s first socialist coffee house, an ‘anti-espresso’ bar. Founded by social historian Raphael Samuel and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in Soho 1958, the Partisan was the spiritual home of the New Left.
The exhibition Read More
ACCA is proud to present a major exhibition of newly commissioned work by Melbourne-based, English-born artist Claire Lambe. Encompassing sculpture, photography and theatrical mise-en-scène, Lambe creates intimate and intense psychological spaces in an ambitious attempt to describe the human condition in its cruel reality and horrifying glory.
Known for her strange and often abject Read More
09:30-17:00 Richard Hoggart Building
Room 137a Goldsmiths, University of London
Engaging in Urban Image-making is a one-day symposium hosted by the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths, which brings together practitioners from: Sociology Goldsmiths, Photojournalism London College of Communication, Urban Photographers Association and London Independent Photography. Its purpose is to begin a dialogue Read More
ANNA FOX / MA FASHION / CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
12 – 26 APRIL 2017
In January this year, MA Fashion commissioned acclaimed British photographer Anna Fox to document the building of the final year collections. Over a two-month period, Fox engaged in fieldwork that reveals the process of fashion design at close quarters; in Read More
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is home to an extraordinary range of documents, images, maps, film and books about London. This site offers an insight into the archives, with practical advice on how to research and use them, both at LMA and online.
We run a wide selection of talks, guided tours, film screenings, exhibitions and other Read More
Four Corners Film, London
6:45 PM – 9:00 PM
Photographers Maggie Murray, Gina Glover, Jenny Matthews and Joanne O’Brien discuss the work and experience of women photographers in the 1970s and 80s. This event is part of Four Corners’ Archive project, which is putting the Camerawork magazine online. To be chaired by Helen Trompeteler, writer and curator Read More
WOMEN IN ART SYMPOSIUM WITH W PROJECT
18.00–20.00
Join this special edition symposium from the W Project to celebrate International Women’s Day
The W Project returns on the eve of International Women’s Day with a very special symposium exploring diversity in the art world and the future of curation.
We invite you to join us at Tate Modern for an evening Read More
Explore parallels between the work of French Surrealist Claude Cahun and Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing, brought together for the first time in this new exhibition.
Though born seventy years apart, both artists share a fascination with the self-portrait and use the self-image, through the medium of photography, to explore themes around Read More
The London-based artist and reader in Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art Rut Blees Luxemburg discusses her large-scale photographic works, which concern the phenomenon of the urban and representation of the city.
This event is part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s talk series Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography, which provides a platform for leading contemporary photographers Read More
“Building Resilience: Dialogue, Collaboration and Partnerships across Our Differences”
Colombo, Sri Lanka
This day-long event offers a platform to consider the position of women in the art world and address questions of inclusion and diversity, especially in relation to museum collections.
Speakers include Iwona Blazwick (Director Whitechapel Gallery), Susan Fisher Sterling (Director National Museum for Women in the Arts), Ann Gallagher (Director of Collections, Tate), and collectors Valeria Napoleone and Floriane de Saint Pierre.
Organised in Read More
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
With a myriad of creative possibilities and inspiration, The Photography Show is a haven for every photographer, no matter what stage of your photography journey you’re at.
Join UCA’s Women in Photography at the show on 18-21 March at the NEC Birmingham to find out more about their projects and browse the Read More
Starts 22 June 2017 – 18:00
Finishes 24 June 2017 – 20:00
Birkbeck, University of London
Feminist Emergency
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in collaboration Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS), the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the British Comparative Literature Association.
This major international feminist Conference emerges out of a shared sense that feminism Read More
Joy Gregory is one of the major artists to emerge from the Black British photography movement of the 1980s; a time when debates around the domain of representation were explored and challenged. Gregory’s work is influenced by a combination of race, history, gender and aesthetics; firmly rooted in concepts of ‘truth and beauty’.
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Member Led Event – The Body Up North with Natalie Wardle
27 April 2017, 19:00 to 20:30
Photographic artist and Redeye member Natalie Wardle hosts an evening with young and talented Northern photographers whose work looks at the human form in visual art and performance. Speaking alongside Natalie will be Manchester-based artists Ruby Robinson and Ellen Moss.
The Read More
Organised by Brighton Women’s Centre, in association with Brighton Dome
Saturday 4th March, 12pm – 1.30pm
The Old Courtroom, 118 Church St, Brighton BN1 1UD
(opposite Brighton Dome Concert Hall)
Join renowned photographers Marilyn Stafford and Nina Emett as they each present a selection of photographs from their work based on the theme of women, hosted Read More
Terrains of the Body:
Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, U.S.), this collection display showcases photography and video work by seventeen contemporary artists from around the world.
By turning their camera to women, including themselves, these artists embrace the female body as 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
As part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival and International Women’s Day, new exhibition HATCHED 2017 will showcase work by local and global artists on the theme of women’s issues.
Exhibition: 22 February to 11 March 2017
at the North Wall Gallery, Oxford
Private View with Maga Esberg’s It (‘s a) girl!performance:
Friday 24th of February 6.30-8.30pm
Performance starts at 7pm.
Using Read More
Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change
January 27–May 7, 2017
Curators’ talk: February 8, 6:30–8:30pm
International Center of Photography
250 Bowery
New York, New York 10012
USA
The International Center of Photography (ICP), the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, kicks off 2017—its designated 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
Moose on the Loose 2017 Biennale of Research:
Transformations, Collaborations
Exhibitions Talks Archives Films Publications Commissions Classes Book Launch Lectures Meetings Conversations Explorations Food
February-March, 2017
Moose 2017 includes exhibitions, a new film festival, book launch, LGBTQ+ zines, studio visits, workshops and demonstrations, plus the second iteration of Shadows –exploring the use of analogue photography by contemporary artists, and Read More
FIX Photo Festival 2017
12 – 21 May: Free Entry
FIX Photo Festival – An annual celebration of consummate photography in all its forms.
In this, the second year of the festival, FIX Photo is curated in response to the consequences of the dramatic political shifts of 2016. Exhibiting artists will issue a positive challenge to the Read More
In October 2016 a network camera was installed on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem looking east across the West Bank towards the Jordanian Mountains.
The camera is constructing images pixel by pixel, line by line from the top left to the bottom right hand corner of the frame so that each complete image represents just 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
Something to get off your chest? Conspire with Guerrilla Girls and speak your mind
The Guerrilla Girls operate a Complaints Department in Tate Exchange, inviting individuals and organisations to come and conspire with the Girls, post complaints about art, culture, politics, the environment, or any other issue they care about. Encouragement and some materials will be provided Read More
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
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
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
MUST SEE AT TATE BRITAIN
Painting with Light:
Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age
11 May – 25 September 2016
This spring, Tate Britain will uncover the dynamic dialogue between British painters and photographers; from the birth of the modern medium to the blossoming of art photography. Spanning over 70 years, the exhibition will bring Read More
Project aim
Photofusion is gravely threatened by rising rent. Photofusion means something special both to creativity in London, and to the community in Brixton. We are gravely threatened by a combination of falling funding and rising rent. Please help us to move, survive, and carry on doing great work!
Photofusion is a hub for photography that has Read More
Organised by FOTONOW CIC and Knowle West Media Centre
THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ARTIST, ACTIVIST, INNOVATOR?
Wednesday, April 27th 6-8pm
Leinster Avenue, Bristol BS4 1NL
Panel Discussion with Amak Mahmoodian, Maria Kapajeva, David Partner, Andrew Jackson
Portfolio Reviews: booking is essential at thephotographer.eventbrite.co.uk
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
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
Photoforum
Four Corners Film Spring Photoforum presents the work of four women photographers
Thursday 17 March, 6.30-8.30pm
Lisa Byrne, Maria Kapajeva, Mira Loew, and Fiona Yaron-Field will show and discuss their work in relation to current feminist debates. This event is part of Women’s History Month in East London
RSVP on the provided link.
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
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
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
Archives Matter: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters
This conference will take place on the 3rd of June 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London and is hosted by the Centre for Feminist Research.
Archives matter. Archives are bound up with the question of whose history is worth preserving. Scholars in postcolonial and decolonial studies have broadened our understanding 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:
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.
University of Oxford is pleased to announce a two-day conference on ‘Women and the Canon’ to be held at Christ Church (University of Oxford) on 22-23 January 2016.
“This conference seeks to problematize received notions of canonicity, and therefore of artistic and intellectual authority, by approaching them through their relationship to gender. The Oxford English Dictionary defines 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
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
Chair: Dr Michael Pritchard
Registration: 10.30
Start: 11am – 4.30
National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ
Tel: 01225325733
To coincide with the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron, The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with the National Media Museum and the University of Westminster presents a day of lectures that celebrate women in photography from both Read More
This two-day conference explores the complex and dynamic evolution of the history of women in photography, from early commercial practices, to the impact of World War II on women and their work, to reframing the role of the archive.
Considering both national and international discussions about women in the history of photography, this event Read More
This panel launches a new research initiative on women and photography at UCA Farnham and brings together an international line up of photographers and curators to discuss key questions emerging from the work of women photographers today. Fast Forward: Women and Photography is a precursor to a larger international symposium taking place in 2015.
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