Category: Events

Healing Through Photography Conference at The Mac

Join us for Healing Through Photography: Trauma & The Art Of Recovery, a unique two-day conference that delves into the transformative power of photography as a medium for healing, growth, and connection. Whether you are a photographer, mental health professional, educator, or creative enthusiast, this event will inspire and equip you with practical tools and Read More

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Symposium Encounters: Art, Power and Archives at Autograph, London

How can creative practices disrupt power structures within the archive? Autograph and Parse Journal present a new symposium examining strategies and methodologies to rethink, reimagine and reshape the histories embedded in archival collections.

The symposium will examine how archival materials can be reactivated through diverse perspectives and disciplines, challenging dominant narratives. With a focus on decolonial Read More

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SPACE A Visual Journey at Fotografiska, Stockholm

One universe. Thirteen artists. Welcome to Space – A Visual Journey, this winter’s major exhibition at Fotografiska. A grandiose art journey through space with themes ranging from science and technology to astrology and philosophy.

Throughout history, humans have looked up to the stars and tried to understand what is out there. Space represents how we can Read More

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Sonia Boyce × Lygia Clark at Whitechapel Gallery, London

Accompanying Lygia Clark: The I and the You and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation, are a selection of nine films.

This film programme explores the journeys of two pioneering women artists from different times, places and socio-political contexts, who share a commitment to the participation of audiences in artworks. Through the gaze of different curators, artists Read More

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Through Motion by Heather Agyepong at Doyle Wham

Doyle Wham is delighted to present Through Motion, a solo presentation of Heather Agyepong.

Heather Agyepong is a British Ghanaian visual artist, performer/actor and maker who lives and works in London. Her art practice is concerned with mental health and wellbeing, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive. Agyepong uses both lens-based practices Read More

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Foam 3h: Sarah Amrani -Terror of Beauty at Foam, Amsterdam

Foam 3h presents Terror of Beauty, the first solo museum exhibition by artist Sarah Amrani. With her work, Amrani explores the complex relationship between technology, culture and beauty standards. The multimedial exhibition invites visitors to think critically about how our perception of beauty and identity is shaped in the digital age.

Sarah Amrani explores the effect Read More

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ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA: ADAPTATION at Saatchi Gallery, London

ADAPTATION, the first major survey of works by contemporary American photographer Anastasia Samoylova. Curated by Taous R. Dahmani, this exhibition presents works from five of Samoylova’s most significant series: ‘Landscape Sublime’, ‘Image Cities’, ‘FloodZone’, ‘Floridas’, and ‘Breakfasts’. The exhibition features compelling video work previously unseen in the UK.

In ADAPTATION, Samoylova directs her frank and curious Read More

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The Art of Experimentation Online Conference by WAPG & Folk House Darkroom

Women Alternative Photography Group and Folk House Darkroom are excited to be collaborating for our upcoming The Art of Experimentation Online Conference. This two day online conference brings together presentations from contemporary artists and researchers who explore the possibilities of alternative photographic processes. Presenters will consider how contemporary practitioners are using innovative and Read More

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Chennai Photo Biennale Edition IV

Photography, invented in the 1820s, has revolutionised, for better or for worse, how we record and remember things. Five billion photos are taken everyday and more than 14 billion images are shared daily on social media. Photography has become a spontaneous act and a universal language now. In this age of excess image production, the Read More

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Jess Holdengarde, Glimmer at Stills, Edinburgh

A black and white landscape image of the ocean with beams of sunlight reflecting in a line down the centre of the image.

In a time marked by environmental, economic, and social crisis, Glimmer is a new body of work by lens-based artist Jess Holdengarde that confronts the paralysis that often is associated with disillusionment.

Holdengarde, through layered approaches, uses the camera, body, light, silver, and sound to explore how the intimacy of a practice can spark transition. With Read More

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Intersectional Grammar: Trees at Hackney Gallery

In celebration of National Tree Week (23 Nov – 8 Dec) a community of photographers will present their work honouring and celebrating the life of trees at Hackney Gallery, East London in an exhibition titled ‘Intersectional Grammar: Trees’.

At the heart of the exhibition is a celebration of trees through the ancient craft of storytelling. The Read More

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Energy: Sparks from the Collection at V&A, London

Whether generated by sunlight passing through a camera lens, triggered by the burst of a flash bulb, or forged by electricity coursing through a microchip, all photographs need some form of energy to exist.

This display shines a light on the diverse kinds of energy in photography, from the hidden processes intrinsic to creating a picture, Read More

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Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans at The Met Fifth Avenue, New York

Featuring work by Walker Evans in dialogue with contemporary photographs by Anastasia Samoylova, the exhibition will feature over 70 objects exploring how the two artists sought to understand the state’s complexity and contradictions.

A popular tourist destination since the early 20th century, Florida is a place where fantasy and reality collide.  Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Read More

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Rineke Dijkstra at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Since the early 1990s, the Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra has produced an impressive body of photographic- and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. By isolating people from their everyday context and searching for glimmers of individuality while focusing on subtle details, the posture and gaze of the subject, she encourages Read More

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Stills: Centre for Photography announces new Director

Stills Centre for Photography is pleased to announce that its new Director will be Vivienne Gamble who will begin this role in January 2025.

Vivienne Gamble is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Peckham 24 festival of contemporary photography. Established in 2016, Peckham 24 takes place annually during Photo London Week. With a Read More

70:15:40: Addressing Gender Imbalance in Photography and Videography at The Handbag Factory, London

70:15:40: Addressing Gender Imbalance in Photography and Videography at The Handbag Factory is an inspiring exhibition showcasing new work by finalists of a national award aimed at highlighting the gender imbalance in the photography and videography industries.

From a unique focus on the Black motherhood experience to themes of equity and solidarity shown through a women/non-binary Read More

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Simryn Gill: Shelter at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Sydney-based Malaysian artist
Simryn GILL (b. 1959). The exhibition, across photography, works on paper and sculpture,
features works from the last six years, and is curated by Catherine de Zegher, who also curated
Gill’s presentation for the Australian Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Shelter highlights the
artist’s pivotal role Read More

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Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos at Autograph, London

Spirit of Lagos unearths the story of Abi Morocco Photos, one of the most vibrant photographic studios operating in Lagos. The studio’s remarkable black-and-white portraits celebrate the rich style and joyous spirit of a generation of Lagosians during a transformative period in Nigeria’s history.

Operated by husband-and-wife duo John Abe and Funmilayo Abe the studio thrived Read More

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Landmarks Through Life: Age, Gender, Migration at UCA Surrey Galleries

This event series, led by UCA Surrey Galleries in collaboration with the Doctoral College, offers a dynamic exploration of the human experience.

Through workshops, exhibitions, and creative events, participants engage in storytelling, movement exploration, music performances, and collaborative projects that address real-world issues through creativity, creative education, and practice-based research.

Focusing on critical dialogue and creative expression, this series challenges Read More

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Modern Muse at Belfast Exposed

Belfast Exposed Gallery, in collaboration with the Centre for British Photography, is thrilled to announce Modern Muse, an exhibition by acclaimed photographic artist Arpita Shah. This compelling body of work, which has garnered acclaim across the UK, will be exhibited in Ireland for the first time, offering audiences a powerful and intimate exploration of South Read More

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Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants at MEP, Paris

In development since 2020, the exhibition Science/Fiction — A Non-History of Plants retraces the visual history of plants through art, technology, and science from the nineteenth century to the present day. Bringing together over 40 artists from different periods and nationalities, this exhibition juxtaposes historic photographic works such as Anna Atkins’ cyanotypes, Karl Blossfeldt’s inventory Read More

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JO SPENCE: A WOMAN’S PLACE? at Belfast Exposed

Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place?, an exhibition spotlighting the ground-breaking phototherapy work of the celebrated British photographer and feminist Jo Spence (1934–1992), provides an intimate and powerful look at Spence’s exploration of the roles and experiences of women within society.

Jo Spence was not just a photographer but a cultural critic and activist who used her Read More

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A Story Named Joy at Palais de Tokyo, Paris

A Story named Joy marks the first gathering of NEST, a transnational network of non-profit organizations, collectives, and independent structures working at the intersection of visual arts, activisms, and gender studies, created at the initiative of AWARE. It will bring these non-institutional voices from diverse cultural contexts to enter into dialogue with Parisian audiences, focusing Read More

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Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage at the Photographers’ Gallery, London

Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage highlights the work of truly innovative American fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013) who transformed fashion imagery into avant-garde art.

Deborah Turbeville’s signature dreamlike and melancholic style became recognisable with her earliest works in the 1970s: enigmatic female figures, cloudy skies, wintry nature and abandoned, decaying surroundings. She deliberately distanced herself from the typical Read More

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Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape at RAMM, Exeter

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape is a major new contemporary art exhibition exploring Dartmoor’s evocative landscape through photography, film and Land Art. Showing artwork from 1969 to 2024, this exhibition demonstrates Dartmoor’s attraction to artists who, through photography, explore current issues including the interconnected ecological and climate crises and access rights.

Dartmoor includes beautiful images of bathers Read More

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BOP, Bristol

BOP – Books on Photography – is the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society, held in Bristol across the second weekend of October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events, street food, coffee and beer.

BOP 2024 will coincide with the Read More

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Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol

The world never stands still, it is always in the process of unfolding and becoming otherwise. Any given moment can be understood as a momentary congregation; of bodies, matters, histories, dreams and ideas. For the second edition we will focus on the theme of movement, drawing attention to global currents and flows, as well as Read More

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Photo Fringe 2024, Brighton

The biennial, open-platform photography festival returns in October with six weeks of exhibitions and events in and beyond Brighton & Hove, Newhaven and for the first time, Portsmouth.

Photo Fringe offers a vibrant mix of photographers presenting their own work, plus photography selected from open calls, in galleries, cafés, pop-up venues, outdoor installations and other extraordinary Read More

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TINA BARNEY Family Ties at Jeu de Paume, Paris

Jeu de Paume showcases the vibrant, singular work of influential American photographer Tina Barney, who is best known for exploring intergenerational familial rituals and the subtle nuances of human connection.

Spanning over 40 years of the artist’s career, the exhibition marks the artist’s first European retrospective.
Born in 1945, Tina Barney began taking photographs of her relatives Read More

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The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain, London

This autumn, Tate Britain will present The 80s: Photographing Britain, a landmark survey which will consider the decade as a pivotal moment for the medium of photography. Bringing together nearly 350 images and archive materials from the period, the exhibition will explore how photographers used the camera to respond to the seismic social, political, and Read More

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In Between Sentiments at Miami International Airport

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), in partnership with Miami International Airport, presents the exhibition “In Between Sentiments,” curated by Amanda Bradley from 5th September 2024 to 2nd February 2025. The exhibition highlights the works of Nicole Combeau and Sue Montoya, who both use photography as a medium to delve into the intersections of place, memory Read More

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Shining Lights: Study Day at V&A, London

‘Shining Lights’ is the first critical anthology to bring together the ground-breaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s socio-political and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both Read More

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Landskrona Foto festival 2024

Once every other year the little city of Landskrona in Skåne, is transformed, into a teeming metropolis of photography – Landskrona Foto Festival.

The art of photography becomes a part of the city environment; in the parks and the stores, while taking place in the cultural parlours. The love of the photography, the engagement and the Read More

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UNSEEN AMSTERDAM

Unseen Photo Fair, is an international art fair dedicated to the latest developments in contemporary photography. There are 71 exhibitors in the main fair, 65 publishers in the book market and eight Unbound projects for its upcoming edition.

Taking place from 20-22 September, with a private preview on 19 September, Unseen Photo Fair will once again Read More

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Foto Tallinn 2024 at Kai Art Center, Tallin

Foto Tallinn is a biannual international photographic art fair that presents the latest contemporary photography selected by a professional jury and creates an opportunity for the art audience to see, buy, and collect fresh photographic art. For professionals in the field, Foto Tallinn offers a platform for collaboration and discussion, meetings with the art audience, Read More

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Talk: On Graciela Iturbide at The Photographers’ Gallery, London

Take a closer look at renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide in this talk by art historian and curator Lassla Esquivel. Celebrated for her personal and culturally resonant photography that captures the essence of life in Latin America, particularly Mexico, Esquivel will offer insight into Iturbide’s influential career, reflecting on her powerful explorations of identity, ritual, and Read More

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Shining Lights: Photography Symposium at V&A, London

Shining Lights is the first critical anthology to bring together the ground-breaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s socio-political and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both Read More

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In Conversation: A Photographic Dialogue Between Japan and Korea at Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich

In the exhibition In Conversation: A Photographic Dialogue Between Japan and Korea, a captivating dialogue unfolds between ten artists from Japan and Korea, each renowned for their unique approaches to photography. The interplay between these artists—Hiroshi Sugimoto, Risaku Suzuki, Rinko Kawauchi, Yoshinori Mizutani, Syoin Kajii from Japan, and Bae, Bien-U, Jung Lee, Jun Ahn, Ina Read More

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Rheim Alkadhi: Templates for Liberation at ICA, London

Templates for Liberation is the UK’s first exhibition of artist Rheim Alkadhi. Addressing ongoing consequences of war and colonialism in present-day Iraq and the region at large, this exhibition presents sculptures, archival documentation, and emancipatory counter-histories. The ICA’s main gallery will feature a series of sculptures fabricated from the heavy-duty transport tarpaulins of cross-border industrial Read More

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UNBOWED: Stories of Ukraine at Kendrew Barn Gallery, Oxford

Unbowed: Stories of Ukraine is a powerful and inspiring photography project produced by a group of Ukrainian women in Surrey who met through an arts-for-wellbeing program in Farnham.

The photography project records the women’s personal experiences of leaving their homes, their friends and family in Ukraine, living in the UK, and of the ongoing trauma of Read More

WOPHA Congress: How Photography Teaches Us to Live Now at Pérez Art Museum, Miami

The WOPHA Congress is a groundbreaking photography conference, exhibition series, and creative convening held at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and virtually, with parallel activations taking place across South Florida. It aims to establish a critical space for photography by bringing together worldwide organizations of women photographers, art historians, theorists, and curators with a goal Read More

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#RebelSevles by Dawn Woolley at RuptureXIBIT (+STUDIO)

Dawn Woolley has a micro residency at RuptureXHIBIT in Hampton Wick culminating in a performance by queer contemporary dancer Miriam Levy on Saturday 20th July in response to Woolley’s #RebelSelves installation. The performance will play with notions of visibility, invisibility and care on social media and in selfie cultures. Images will be shared online via Read More

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Tatjana Danneberg — Something Happened at MEP, Paris

The MEP Studio presents the first solo exhibition in France by the Austrian artist Tatjana Danneberg, whose practice combines photography and painting.

Through experimentation with materials and processes for transferring images to canvas, Tatjana Danneberg transforms her analog photographs taken from life into expressive paintings. Using inexpensive cameras, the artist seeks to extend casual memories by Read More

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PROVOCATIVE MATERIALS FOR THOUGHT 思想のための挑発的資料 / Photobooks by Japanese Women: A Reading Room at Photobook Café, London

PROVOCATIVE MATERIALS FOR THOUGHT 思想のための挑発的資料 / Photobooks by Japanese Women: A Reading Room is dedicated to the photobooks of 26 Japanese women photographers. On display are a wide range of photobooks representing the work of photographers active from the postwar era to the present day. All books will be available for consultation, visitors are encouraged Read More

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Re-evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art at Middlesex University, London

Re-evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art is a one-day (hybrid) international conference discussing new research in feminism and contemporary art. Organised by Create/Feminisms, this conference (hybrid format) at Middlesex University aims to explore new directions in feminist research.  The three keynote speakers are: Jacqueline Millner (Australia), title tbc (online from Sydney); Oksana Bruikhovetska (Ukraine) ‘We Read More

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Vija Celmins at Dunoon Burgh Hall

Discover Celmins’s meticulous drawings, paintings and prints at Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon

This exhibition takes an in-depth look at the artist’s works on paper and her long-time interest in using imagery from the natural world.

Vija Celmins (b. Riga,1938) produces exquisitely intricate drawings and prints of nature based on photographs, including images found in books and magazines. Read More

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Suzie Larke: Unseen at Southbank Centre, London

Logic-defying work by photographer Suzie Larke, who returns to Southbank Centre with new images raising awareness and sparking conversations about mental wellbeing.

Collaborating with individuals and mental-wellbeing groups over three years on this project, Larke observed a recurring theme: the profound impact of belonging, or its absence, on mental wellness.

Larke says: ‘The essence of belonging is Read More

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Randa Mirza – Beirutopia at Maison des Peintres, Arles

BEIRUTOPIA is a visual essay formed from a biographical perspective, a premonition of the multidimensional—political, financial and social—crisis that Lebanon is experiencing. This solo show looks critically at the brutal transformation of post-war Beirut through seven works by Randa Mirza  produced between 2000 and 2022.

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I’m So Happy You are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now at PALAIS DE L’ARCHEVÊCHÉ, Arles

I’m So Happy You Are Here offers an exciting new perspective on Japanese photography: a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon—an electrifying expansion of our understanding of Japanese photographic history, but also of photo-history at large. Over the past decade, the world of photography has made a concerted effort Read More

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Debi Cornwall – Model Citizens at ESPACE MONOPRIX, Arles

Over the last decade, Debi Cornwall has been investigating the fictions fuelling America’s idea of itself. Her vivid, formally composed color documentary photographs serve more to provoke than to inform, inviting a closer examination of how state power is performed, consumed, and normalized.

This exhibition features two bodies of work representing two sides of the same Read More

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don’t worry i won’t forget you at FormaHQ, London

Forma are proud to announce don’t worry i won’t forget you, an interactive library, exhibition and public programme guest curated by Êvar Hussayni and Sarah Hamed, that will open at FormaHQ on 13 June 2024.

Reimagining how archives are built, activated and used, don’t worry i won’t forget you presents the entire physical archive of the Read More

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Dora Maar: Behind the Lens at Amar Gallery, London

Amar Gallery is proud to announce its reopening exhibition – Dora Maar: Behind the Lens, featuring photographs & photograms from the Dora Maar Estate. The exhibition is a celebration of Maar’s life and is in conjunction with the upcoming release of bestselling author Louisa Treger’s book, The Paris Muse, based on Maar’s affair with Picasso, Read More

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Hannah Starkey at Maureen Paley, London

Maureen Paley is pleased to present the eighth solo exhibition by Hannah Starkey at the gallery, following her survey exhibition In Real Life at the Hepworth Wakefield, 2022.

Starkey’s large-scale photographs engage with how women are represented in contemporary culture. Her portraits capture moments of everyday life and an expanded female experience. Starkey reveals Read More

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MOTHEROTHER at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

MOTHEROTHER brings together a variety of artist’s perspectives on parenting. The selected art works by Hannah Cooke, Katie Cuddon, Sarah Maple, Lauren McLaughlin, Kübra Müjde, Sara Qaed and Kate Sweeney, explore caregiving within systems which often overlook, exclude, censor, minimise or legislate their experience.  

The exhibition is a response to themes emerging from the social art Read More

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Book Launch: Dorothy Bohm at 100 – A Life in Photography at The Photographers’ Gallery

This new book, published to mark the centenary of Bohm’s birth, showcases the diversity of her work and her profound empathy for the human condition. It contains texts by Monica Bohm-Duchen, Martin Barnes and Rachel Wallace with additional contributions from Maria Balshaw, Katy Barron, Colin Ford CBE, Anna Fox, Lydia Goldblatt, Mark Haworth-Booth, Amanda Hopkinson, Ian Read More

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Berg & Høeg at Preus Museum, Horten

Marie and Bolette took professional portraits and landscape photos. But a box marked “private” contained photographs that showed playing with gender roles and how one should look in front of a camera around the turn of the last century. 

The two photographers Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg had a studio in Horten from 1895–1903, and in Read More

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Young Human by ShuShu Sieberns at Foam, Amsterdam

Young Human by ShuShu Sieberns is an ode to queerness and highlights the artist’s complex perspective, coloured by her traditional Russian background, especially in relation to her religious grandmother. The exhibition is enriched with an installation that brings ShuShu’s grandmother’s cozy living room to life. The sheltered atmosphere in Young Human takes the visitor into a Read More

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Cooper & Gorfer – Sirens at Fotografiska, Shanghai

In Sirens, Cooper & Gorfer create a fictitious tribe of women in different states of transformation. Birthed from a library of female bodies and rituals, the artists reconstruct a mythological dynasty inspired by the transformative powers of immortal goddesses, their use of power, magic, and vengeance.

From unique mix media collages to artworks arising from in Read More

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Captured Earth at MoCP, Chicago

Captured Earth presents works by artists who create works in photography and installation that use elements from nature to explore place, ecology, and the material and mystical qualities of the land. Depictions range from site-specific performances, including Tarrah Krajnak’s documentations of her nature-centered rituals using rocks and plant material. Other artists use natural elements to create Read More

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ZANELE MUHOLI at Tate Modern, London

A major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi is on show at Tate Modern until January 2025. Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.

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Hanna Villiger at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Bringing together around 100 works and documents from the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and the Estate of Hannah Villiger foundation, this monographic exhibition dedicated to Swiss artist Hannah Villiger is the first of its kind in France. It pays homage to an artistic practice that oscillated between sculpture, photography and spatial architecture, Read More

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C. Rose Smith: Talking Back to Power at Autograph, London

Focused on the intricate dynamics of visibility and authority, Talking Back to Power proposes a reclamation of black visibility. C. Rose Smith’s evocative black and white self-portraits revolve around the white cotton shirt, staged at locations affiliated with the wealth generated from cotton plantations in the Southern United States of America.

During the 19th century, cotton Read More

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Beyond Fashion at the Saatchi Gallery

Beyond Fashion showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world. The works demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines to reflect on the reality of our lives, to explore our aspirations and to push at the boundaries of creativity.

Including works by Maisie Cousins, Viviane Sassen, Elinor Read More

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Janette Beckman: Rebels at Foam, Amsterdam

The exhibition Rebels is the first large scale retrospective of the iconic punk and hip-hop photographer Janette Beckman. With a photographic career stretching over four decades, she documented pivotal underground movements from the early stages of the punk and hip-hop scene to recent movements like Black Lives Matter. The exhibition sheds light on themes such as social Read More

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2024 WOPHA CONGRESS: HOW PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHES US TO LIVE NOW

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), in partnership with Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), announces today highlights of the 2024 WOPHA Congress—a groundbreaking photography conference, exhibition series, and creative convening, taking place across South Florida. The second edition of the Congress, titled “How Photography Teaches Us to Live Now,” presents the indelible contribution of women and Read More

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Climate, Culture and Community at Autograph, London

Autograph’s current exhibition Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos is a visual meditation on the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta, demonstrating how artmaking can be used as a tool for social empowerment and to confront continued, aggressive colonial practices.

Drawing on the notion that the climate crisis is not equally distributed between all communities, join us Read More

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Sophie Gerrard – Cultivating Equality at Gallery 103, Glasgow

The latest exhibition from We Feed The UK celebrates women-led initiatives producing nature-friendly food for Scotland. Scottish photographer Sophie Gerrard has studied two ground-breaking examples: Lauriston Farm , a 100-acre site near Edinburgh run by a majority-women workers cooperative as a local response to the lack of affordable, healthy food; and Nikki Yoxall of Grampian Graziers , using native cattle to restore the Read More

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Livia Foldes: NSFW Venus at The Photographer’s Gallery

Livia Foldes questions how computers are taught to see and interpret bodies and identities. In her series NSFW Venus, she appropriates and alters images from a pornography-detection dataset to reflect on the parallels between colonial archives and machine learning datasets.

From phrenology to sexology, photographic archives and bodily measurement have played integral roles in constructions of race, gender, Read More

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Forest Complex by Uta Kögelsberger at BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck

Uta Kögelsberger’s solo exhibition Forest Complex brings together a new multifaceted body of photographic, video, and sound works that observe the complex societal, political, and ecological entanglements surrounding the pressures Alpine forests have come under in the wake of the climate emergency. The works in this exhibition delve into the multiple ways in which humanity is responding Read More

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Photography in Virtual Culture at The Photographers Gallery

The last decade has seen a clear shift in the operational frameworks for the production, dissemination and consumption of photographs in contemporary computerised societies. The representational apparatus of photography is being progressively converted into algorithmic and generative processes through computer automation, connectivity and algorithmic control.

Recent developments of AI systems and expanded technologies exponentially transform the Read More

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Birth Rites Collection Summer School 2024

Birth Rites Collection’s Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. Four intensive days will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice and the artworks. The course is led by artist & BRC Curator Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan.

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Stephen by Melanie Manchot

Stephen is auditioning to play himself in an inventive, cinematic and moving exploration of addiction and mental health.

Visual artist Melanie Manchot works with a recovery group in Liverpool, who take up roles in a semi-fictional film-within-a-film that explores addiction and mental health from multiple perspectives. It is centred around Stephen, a character recovering Read More

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Aria Dean: Abattoir at ICA, London

Aria Dean: Abattoir, is the New York-based interdisciplinary artist’s first exhibition in the UK. The presentation includes two artworks related to the artist’s investigation of the foundational relationship between death and modernity on conceptual and material levels.

The ICA’s main gallery features Abattoir, U.S.A.!, an immersive film installation with 8-channel sound. Commissioned by the Renaissance Society Read More

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Her Art in Action at Gazelli Art House, Baku

Gazelli Art House, an international art gallery based in Baku and London, and VarYox, a Baku-based art and media platform, will host a month-long festival focusing on female artistic practice. This first edition of the project, titled Her Art in Action, will showcase the theme The Feminine Gaze: Seeing Ourselves and Each Other. The festival Read More

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Exteriors — Annie Ernaux & Photography at MEP, Paris

Exteriors — Annie Ernaux and Photography celebrates the close relationship between photography and the writing of Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, through texts from her book Exteriors (Journal du dehors), 1993, and photographs from the MEP collection. The exhibition is the product of a residency conducted by the curator Read More

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Siân Davey: The Garden at The Photographer’s Gallery

Discover works from Siân Davey’s The Garden in a free outdoor exhibition in the Soho Photography Quarter just outside the Gallery.

Starting in 2020, British photographer Siân Davey transformed her abandoned garden over three summers into a vibrant space, filled with wildflowers, birdsong and people.

Together with her son, Luke, Davey cultivated a space rooted in love. They researched native flowers Read More

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Polly Braden: Leaving Ukraine at Foundling Museum

Polly Braden: Leaving Ukraine is an intimate portrait of women, forced to leave their homes following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In this new series of work we see the extraordinary journeys undertaken by mothers, daughters, teenagers and babies in arms.

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Polly Braden has used Read More

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JULIE BROOK: WHAT IS IT THAT WILL LAST? at Pangolin, London

‘What is it That Will Last?’ offers an insight into the extraordinary work of Scottish land artist Julie Brook. Capturing the sculptures she creates in wild and inaccessible locations around the globe through film, photography and drawing, this exhibition explores Brook’s deep and immersive relationship with each landscape and the natural materials she uses.

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Japan, outside Japan by Miyuki Okuyama at Daiwa Foundation

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present Miyuki Okuyama’s first UK solo exhibition, Japan, outside Japan. The show will feature Okuyama’s two recent works, Dear Japanese: Children of War (2012-17) and Michinoku Homeward: Walking towards the Northeast (2021).

Dear Japanese: Children of War (2012-17) is a documentary made from her personal point of view as Read More

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Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain at Autograph, London

Affirming the value and survival of her ancestors’ indigenous knowledge, Mexican-British artist Mónica Alcázar-Duarte examines western society’s obsession with speed, expansion and resource accumulation at a time when ecological disaster looms. She raises critical questions – where does knowledge lie? Who and what is classified? – joining together the threads of dissociated knowledge systems.

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Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles at Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery presents the UK debut of Zineb Sedira’s critically acclaimed exhibition Dreams Have No Titles.

Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance, that interweaves the artist’s biography with activist films produced across France, Algeria and Read More

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In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection at Brooklyn Museum

In the Now unites nearly fifty women artists who are resisting traditional ideas of gender and nationality, as well as of photography itself. The first museum survey of photography-based works by women artists born or based in Europe, this exhibition interrogates the continent’s legacies of nationalism and patriarchal power structures—which continue to shape everyday life, Read More

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Talk: ALEXIS HUNTER: VISUAL ACTIVISM at Richard Saltoun Gallery

The Richard Saltoun Gallery is hosting a talk by New Zealand-based art historian, Elizabeth Eastmond on Alexis Hunter, within the framework of the exhibition 10 Seconds at the gallery.

Two generations on from second-wave feminism, Elizabeth Eastmond’s focus is on shifting responses to Alexis Hunter’s work. Considering the significance of her background in an Aotearoa/New Zealand of Read More

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Three Easter Pieces by Yan Wang Preston at Messums, London

In her second solo exhibition at Messums London, the Chinese-British photographer Yan Wang Preston presents new works that explore the complexities of cultural migration by restaging iconic artworks in different geopolitical and cultural contexts. The series includes the photographic and performative restaging of artworks such as ‘To Add a Metre to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995’, Read More

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Behind the Scenes at F22

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the AOP f22 group, and launched on International Women’s Day 2024, the group have published diptychs by 30 of its members showing a photograph they have produced alongside a behind-the-scenes image of the photographer at work.

The AOP f22 group was first created in the 1980s and then re-formed in Read More

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Lumen at Autograph

Where history has often marginalised the female voice, Lumen reinstates it, not just as a mainstay of family and home but as an avatar of social conscience. Autograph presents the London premiere of Sutapa Biswas’ acclaimed film in a new solo exhibition.

Born in India and educated in the UK, Biswas’ art is underpinned by an Read More

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Silent Archive at Inverleith House

Painful truths, surprising revelations and fresh perspectives on humanity’s complex relationships with the botanical world emerge from the exhibition Silent Archive.

International artists reveal RBGE’s archives in new ways, challenging us to discover hidden narratives and hear long-ignored voices that are preserved in our collections. Significant works that tell stories of scientific discoveries, colonial histories and Read More

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Workshop: Locating the Self, Bieke Depoorter, Albania

Join Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter for a workshop over 5 days in Tirana, Albania as part of the Inside>>Out program.

This in-person photography workshop is designed to offer you strategies on how to present a project through editing and sequencing and focus on telling intimate stories through visual storytelling. Whilst on the programme you will work Read More

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Leipzig Photobook Festival

The third Leipzig Photobook Festival is dedicated to the topic of “Protest”. The topic will be researched from different perspectives in exhibitions of historical and contemporary books, a panel discussion and short presentations.

In addition, there will be panel discussions, presentations, exhibitions, book presentations, portfolio reviews, a speed dating event and a get-together.

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ACTS OF RESISTANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FEMINISMS AND THE ART OF PROTEST at South London Gallery

Photography has long been associated with acts of resistance. It is used to document action, share ideas, inspire change, tell stories, gather evidence and fight against injustice.

This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography.

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Photoworks Summit 2024 at Fabrica, Brighton

Photoworks Summit is the place for photographers, creatives and arts professionals to gather and explore ‘The Thing’ about photography; from festivals to photobooks and across creative and professional practices. Featuring two days of presentations, performances, round tables and practical sessions, Photoworks Summit is an opportunity to meet, exchange and collaborate.

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Contested Bodies at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

Delve into the work of over 40 contemporary artists from across the gender spectrum.

Explore gender stereotypes, self-representation and shapeshifting through fashion in artworks made in the last ten years in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography and video.

Challenge your ideas around race, class, objectification, pleasure or desire. Discover strategies of resilience, empowerment, Read More

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Joy Gregory and the Whitechapel Gallery win Freelands Award 2023

Joy Gregory and the Whitechapel gallery win the eighth annual Freelands Award.

In autumn 2025, Whitechapel Gallery will stage Joy Gregory’s first monographic exhibition, surveying a four-decade practice that has influenced generations of younger artists. Almost 100 works spanning analogue and digital photography, video, film installation, performance and textiles will highlight Gregory’s contribution to the development Read More

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#Rebel Selves at Left Bank, Leeds

Dawn Wolley’s #Rebel Selves installation is something between a stage set for an absurdist play, a hall of mirrors, and an exploded 3-dimensional photograph. Masks, garments, and props scatter the space, inviting visitors to play different characters and create queer selfies.

In the porch gallery space, Woolley will show a series of #Rebel self-portrait photographs. During Read More

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Collective Exhibition of the 9th edition of the Pierre Verger National Photography Prize at The Bahia Art Museum

The Bahia Art Museum hosts the Collective Exhibition of the 9th edition of the Pierre Verger National Photography Prize.  Prizes worth R$30,000 were awarded to three photographic stories in the categories ‘Ancestry and Representation’, ‘Historical Questions’ and ‘Free Theme and Technique’. In the ‘Ancestry and Representation’ category, works were analysed that address ethnophotography as a Read More

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Women’s Work is Never Done at Richard Saltoun Gallery

Richard Saltoun Gallery is honoured to present Women’s Work is Never Done, curated by Catherine de Zegher, internationally acclaimed Belgian curator and art historian, celebrating some of the most important female artists from the Post-war era up to the present-day.

Titled after de Zegher’s anthology published in 2014, the exhibition features works by gallery artists BRACHA L. Read More

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Witness/Memory/Recall at the V&A

A new book display curated in collaboration with the Krasna-Krausz Foundation titled Witness/Memory/Recall is now open in the V&A Photography Centre. On view until May 2024, the display celebrates past winners and longlisted entries of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards.

Inaugurated in 1985, the award recognises outstanding books on photography and moving image, with an emphasis on Read More

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Photography on the Move: The Half Moon Touring Shows 1976 – 1984 at Four Corners

This November, discover how trailblazing photography exhibitions toured 1970s Britain with the help of a humble laminating machine.

Four Corners’ latest exhibition tells the remarkable story of the Half Moon touring shows, revealing a little-known moment in British photographic history.

In 1976, photographers at East London’s Half Moon Gallery developed an innovative approach to exhibiting. Read More

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Tish at Curzon Soho

The Photographers’ Gallery has partnered with Modern Films to present a screening of Tish, a film about documentary photographer Tish Murtha by Paul Sng.

Tish’s story is told via a series of intimate conversations conducted by Murtha’s daughter Ella, who has dedicated her life to establishing her mother’s remarkable legacy. Through the poignant memories of Murtha’s friends Read More

Soft Power at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Soft Power celebrates the art of Birmingham-based artist Su Richardson (b. 1947) and presents a wide array of work made at different stages of the artist’s fifty-year career. Richardson’s soft sculptures embrace and subvert the medium of crochet, traditionally considered ‘women’s work’. Her beautifully crafted objects revalidate textiles and craft-making as a fine art form.

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RE/SISTERS A Lens on Gender and Ecology at Barbican Art Gallery

Re/Sisters is a major group exhibition exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.

Featuring around 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists, RE/SISTERS is a new exhibition featuring work from emerging and established artists across the fields of photography and film.

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Hexed, Vexed and Sexed at West Den Haag

The title ‘Hexed, Vexed & Sexed’ points to the vexed freedom of women artists in the world today. It reclaims the Hex as a discipline of feminine intellect and politics, capable of transforming social circumstances from the inside out.

The Hex stands for irrepressible women’s power, often vilified as unreasonable, childish, or animal, but producing profound Read More

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Lee Miller: Dressed at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Lee Miller, photographer, surrealist, model, war correspondent, writer, traveller and cook lived her many lives with passion and audacity. These lives are all reflected in her dress and style.

This exhibition examines Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s. It includes Read More

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Exhibition “Floodlit Room – Women’s Photographic Practice in Croatia” in Zagreb, Croatia

Floodlit Room – Women’s Photographic Practice in Croatia

 

One exhibition in two locations, curated by Sandra Križić Roban

Nikola Tesla Technical Museum: 24.10.-3.12.2023

The Ethnographical Museum, Zagreb: 26.10-25.11.2023

In the history of Croatian photography, the women’s photographic gaze was generally not considered challenging, and there was a prevailing belief that women Read More

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ABANDONED BY JILL QUIGLEY AND ADRIAN TYLER – a new exhibition at Martin Parr Foundation

The next MPF exhibition launched 28 SEPT  bringing together for the first time the work of two photographers, Adrian Tyler and Jill Quigley.

Adrian Tyler presents Dust to Dust and Jill Quigley presents Cottages of Quigley’s Point, each exploring uninhabited homes and the objects scattered within them.

‘In this exhibition, two photographers carefully explore and engage with rural domestic ruins – more specifically, Read More

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THREADS OF WAR opening at Farleys House and Gallery

New work by photographer Jenny Matthews open

at Farleys House and Gallery in Chiddingly BN8 6HW

For over 40 years Jenny Matthew’s documentary photography has concentrated on the effects of conflict on women and communities. Since 2020 she has been making photo quilts/hangings with edits of her photos, which have been printed onto cotton linen.

Some images have Read More

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IMAGO LISBOA – Photography Festival Opens

IMAGO LISBOA Photo Festival & Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes are pleased to invite you to the  exhibition Rethinking Identity from Lois Cid, Lara Jacinto and Maria Gruzdeva in the scope of the54th Edition of the IMAGO LISBOA Photo Festival, at Galeria Pintor Fernando de Azevedo in SNBA.

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Fast Forward: In Conversations / Helen Sear and Eugenie Shinkle

Beyond the view: Helen Sear in conversation with Eugenie Shinkle

September 21st, 2023
6-8pm, free entry (booking is essential, go to the direct link)

Centre for British Photography
49 Jermyn Street
London SW1Y 6LX

Introducing the first in our series of Fast Forward: In Conversations created in collaboration with the Centre for British Photography in London. The series will be run from Autumn Read More

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Women in Photography Newsletter

Women | Photography, a newsletter edited by author Malavika Karlekar which foregrounds the role of women as visual chroniclers and creative artists, broadening the established canons of lens-based histories within and outside the subcontinent.

In this edition, researcher Senani Dehigolla narrates a personal account of her experience of the mass uprising on 9 July 2022 which took place on the streets of Read More

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Trish Morrissey at Impressions Gallery

Trish Morrissey: Autofictions – Twenty years of photography and film

15 July to 14 October 2023

Free entry

It is the first major survey of work by Trish Morrissey in the UK. The exhibition brings together photographs and films spanning over twenty years of the artist’s career and will be the UK premiere of several bodies of work, Read More

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Rebel Selves Smartphone Self-portrait Workshop

The workshop, designed to span approximately 1.5 to 2 hours, will begin with Dawn Woolley’s brief talk and introduction to her #RebelSelves installation, currently on show at Diskurs gallery. This interactive workshop empowers attendees to express themselves artistically, fostering self-exploration and creativity at different levels. Woolley will invite particpants to develop characters using masks and Read More

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Olga Karlovac: Reflections

12-18 June 2023, open daily 12 – 6pm

Private View 14 June, 6 – 9pm

With Reflections Olga Karlovac presents a visual journal of her inner worlds as a series of experimental self-portraits alongside timeless and nameless landscapes.

Karlovac’s work occupies a space in between: figuration and abstraction; shadow and light; recollection and the here and now. Using Read More

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Amy Hannah at Belfast Photo Festival

Epitaph

Amy Hannah

Date: 23 June – 21 July

Location: University of Atypical

Times: 11:00am – 5:30pm | Tues – Fri

‘Epitaph’ is an exhibition exploring the process of mourning ‘coming-of-age’ experiences, friendships and opportunities never experienced by the artist. Through the use of photography Amy Hannah relates, an autobiographical portrait of a life where Read More

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Hannah Starkey at Belfast Photo Festival

Principled & Revolutionary: Northern Ireland’s Peace Women

Hannah Starkey

Dates: 7 April – 10 September

Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast

Times: 10:00am – 5:00pm | Tue – Sun

This year marks 25 years since the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. On this occasion, Belfast Photo Festival presents a newly commissioned body of work by renowned photographer Hannah Starkey Read More

2023 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture & Symposium at Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand

2023 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture & Symposium:

Stories from ‘Through Shaded Glass’ by Lissa Mitchell, and current photo practice by women.

Lecture
Thursday 8 June
7pm (doors open 6.45pm)
FREE ENTRY: Please register to reserve a seat
Location: Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Tongarewa

Lissa Mitchell – Curator historical and documentary photography, Te Papa Tongarewa

Through Shaded Glass: The publication of Through Shaded Glass Read More

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Yevonde: Life and Colour at the National Portrait Gallery

An exploration of the life and career of Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s.

Yevonde: Life and Colour tells the story of a woman who gained freedom through photography – as she experimented with her medium and blazed a new trail for portrait photographers. The exhibition features portraits Read More

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Light-Struck by Ellen Carey

Light-Struck at Lacock: Photo artist Ellen Carey brings new work to Britain’s birthplace of photography

• Renowned photographer opens new exhibition at Lacock’s Fox Talbot Museum
• Artwork created in response to Lacock’s photographic history displayed for first time
• Artist Ellen Carey named in Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Hundred Heroines’ list in 2019

Light-Struck by Ellen Carey opens as Read More

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Lakeside Darkroom: an exhibition and a panel discussion

The DYNAMO photography programme is the result of these 6 months of work in the darkroom and working as a company.

WHY DYNAMO? A dynamo requires very little power to start and progressively produces an enormous quantity of unstoppable energy.  UNSTOPPABLE

A dynamo is a vector of transformation that converts mechanical energy to electric energy.  TRANSFORMATION VECTOR

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Dynamo Photo Program at Lakeside Darkroom

The Dynamo Photo Program at Lakeside Darkroom comprises an open exhibition by its members and related events.  Members have been asked to select three images that they have created at LKSD Darkroom that represent them, their work or their interests so visitors can better get to know the people that use the darkroom.

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OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN at Richard Saltoun Gallery

Outside, looking in, is a group exhibition celebrating the fundamental role women have played in the evolution of abstract art. The title is lifted from the writings of British artist Shelagh Wakely, inspired by the notion of questioning set divisions and hierarchies and examining how female abstractionists have historically pushed the boundaries of abstraction, despite being eclipsed Read More

Fiona Crisp: Weighting Time

Weighting Time is a survey exhibition across two venues Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens (1 April – 3 June) and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (6 May – 3 September) exploring 30 years of work by British artist Fiona Crisp.

From the subterranean world of dark-matter laboratories to the midnight sun of the Norwegian mountains in Read More

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Shannon Bool 1:1 and Refracting Histories at MoCP, Columbia College Chicago

The two exhibitions on view, Shannon Bool 1:1, and Refracting Histories, both explore history of art and architecture through reframing and reinterpreting dominant narratives. Shannon Bool’s work looks to the history of modernism to reveal connections between architecture, consumer culture, and feminist concerns.  Bool’s photo based tapestries, photograms, and sculptures probe the history of modernist Read More

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Mother Art Prize at Zabludowicz Collection

Zabludowicz Collection is delighted to host the Procreate Project Mother Art Prize. For its 4th edition, this open call group exhibition features 21 artists selected from 630 entries from 36 countries.

The Mother Art Prize aims to promote and support artists who are mothers/parents, as well as to drive the attention of the wider public to Read More

Memory in Liquid Time at Vanderbilt University

Marianne Hirsch will be talking about Mischling 1/My name is Sara on March 29th, at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Centre for the Study of Sexuality.

She is the author of ‘School Pictures in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference’ (2019), Read More

Symposium: Imaging South Asia at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

In collaboration with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, this one-day symposium explores present modes of inquiry related to the ‘place’ South Asia, and the ‘idea’ of subcontinental identity as engaged through practice.

With reputed specialists from art production, curation and publishing, these talks question the complex, intersectional dimensions of arts practices in “South Asia” – Read More

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Up in Arms at De La Warr Pavilion

Artists Anna Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders remove the boundaries between process and artwork as they bring together social practice, visual art and performance for their Up in Arms project, produced by Artsadmin and commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion.

During the lead up to the exhibition opening, local residents of Hastings and Rother can join free social practice sessions facilitated by Nabirye Read More

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Eye Body at T J Boulting

TJ Boulting is delighted to present a group show of performance and photography, where the artist is present in both. The title comes from the 1963 series by Carolee Schneemann Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera where the artist looked at the idea of being both the image and image-maker, seeing and being Read More

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Playing with Wildfires at the Royal Geographic Society

Playing with wildfires is a video and photography exhibition that animates lived experiences of wildfire in Bolivia. It stems from an international research collaboration utilising Augusto Boal’s celebrated models of the Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community-based dialogue and response to complex conflicts sparked by wildfires in Bolivia’s Chiquitania. This region Read More

Playing with Wildfire: Exploring Socio-Environmental Crisis in Latin America at the Royal Geographic Society

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and sponsored by the University of Glasgow and Newcastle University, Playing with Wildfire is an action-research project which deployed methods drawn from Brazilian playwright Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to generate community-based dialogue and response to the complex cultural, political and environmental conflicts precipitated by wildfires in Read More

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Karen Knorr Retrospective at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris

An emblematic figure of contemporary photography, Karen Knorr belongs to a generation of artists who questioned the nature of photography, no longer considering it as a pure expression of reality, but as a fabricated image.

This exhibition will be an opportunity to rediscover historical works including examples from Gentlemen (1981-83), Country Life (1983-85), Connoisseurs (1986-1990), Academies (1994-2005) Read More

#RISK at RAW Photo Triennial

What does risk mean to us?  The exhibition #RISK deals with major socio-political issues such as revolutions, armed conflicts, migration and climate change and also sheds light on personal concerns that leads people to step out of their comfort zone, cross borders and break with everyday life.  The seven selected photographic positions illustrate that these Read More

Lecture in Photography: Pixy Liao at MoCP, Chicago IL

Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Pixy Liao is an artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Liao has participated in exhibitions internationally, including at the Fotografiska, Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, Asia Society, and the National Gallery of Australia.

She is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship in photography, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Awards, Madame Read More

Exhibition ‘Dialogue, Disintegration and The Disconnect’

Works by

Heather McDonough

Sacha Lehrfreund

Mara Bodis-Wollner

Newington Green Meeting House
39A Newington Green
London N16 9PR

Exhibition Launch • Wednesday 8 March 2023. 7:00–9:00 p.m.

Exhibition on view Friday 3 March–Sunday 2 April 2023
Thursdays/Fridays 12:00–6:00 p.m.
(Saturday & Sunday by appointment)

Photographic Night Walk • Friday 10 March. 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Walk and photograph with the artists (bring Read More

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Headstrong: Women & Empowerment: PANEL DISCUSSION

CENTRE FOR BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY
March 22, 6-8pm

Free, but limited tickets available

A Fast Forward Women in Photography & University of Creative Arts event

PANEL DISCUSSION WITH CURATOR: ANNA FOX AND EXHIBITING ARTISTS: HALEY CAFIERO-MORRIS, JOY GREGORY, TRISH MORRISSEY AND MARYAM WAHID.
 
On March 22nd Headstrong artists: Haley Cafiero-Morris, Joy Gregory, Trish Morrissey and Maryam Wahid will be taking part in a panel discussion chaired Read More

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Costume X Fashion at the Düsseldorf Theater Museum

Photographer Corina Gertz’s ‘averted portraits’ focus on the textures, colors, fabrics and details of the costumes of the Opera and Ballet on the Rhine. The photographs, along with the costumes depicted, will be shown for the first time in the exhibition Costume X Fashion: Costumes as Inspiration for Art and Fashion at the Düsseldorf Theater Museum.

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International Photography Exhibition 164, RPS Gallery

The RPS International Photography Exhibition returns with its 164th edition showcasing powerful stories and documenting important themes, through the powerful medium of photography. The world’s longest running contemporary photography exhibition will open at RPS Gallery, Bristol in January 2023.

The RPS International Photography Exhibition 164 explores themes of identity, cultural heritage, sexuality and gender, mental health, Read More

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SHE / HER / HERS / HERSELF at Belfast Exposed

In February 2023, Belfast Exposed presents an exhibition of new work by the socially engaged artist Anthony Luvera, She / Her / Hers / Herself.

The culmination of a five-year collaboration between Luvera and a participant named Sarah Wilson, She / Her / Hers / Herselfexplores one individual’s experience as they navigate their transgender identity. The Read More

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A Tall Order! – Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s

In the 1980s, Touchstones was known as Rochdale Art Gallery. Its daring and innovative approach to exhibition and education programming positioned it on the national map.

Led by Exhibition Officer, Jill Morgan, the focus on exhibiting artists engaged in critical and socio-political practice gave a platform to those who were not being offered the opportunity to Read More

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Climate Aware Photography Course

Redeye’s Climate Aware Photography course and certification is available to book now!

We believe Climate Aware Photography (CAP) is the first course of its kind. It is open to photographers of any genre, experience and background. This is a space for you to learn more about the effects of climate change worldwide, discuss photography’s impact on Read More

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Women at War, The Art Gallery at Stanford in Washington

WOMEN AT WAR

Artists: Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom,
Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko,
Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva,
and Alla Horska (1929-1970)

Curated by Monika Fabijanska

12.01. – 21.03.2023

Women at War features works by leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provides context for the current war. Several works in the exhibition Read More

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HAPAX ANNOUNCES ARTIST AND CURATORIAL COMMISSIONS FOR ITS FOURTH ISSUE

Hapax are pleased to announce the six recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for the fourth issue, to be published early in Summer 2023.

Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected four artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication Read More

Laia Abril, A History of Misogony, Chapter two: On Rape and Institutional Failure

In partnership with the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, Photoworks are excited to announce the first UK exhibition of Laia Abril’s, A History of Misogyny, Chapter two: On Rape and Institutional Failure, at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham, London.

A visual history of misogyny spanning over 2000 years—focusing on the pervasion of rape in societies around the world—is Read More

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More than 50% Women Exhibiting in Scottish Grad Show

Joint exhibitions in Glasgow and Edinburgh to showcase the photographic talent of recent graduates from across Scotland

FUTUREPROOF returns for its 14th year, celebrating some of the incredible photographic work emerging from the BA Photography and Fine Art degrees shows of the colleges, universities, and art schools across Scotland. Exhibitions take place in both Edinburgh and Read More

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Paris Photo 2022 The Platform: Celebrating Women Artists

The platform is an experimental forum: 4 days of conversations with personalities from the world of art and photography.

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER
ELLES X PARIS PHOTO

This program benefits from Women In Motion, a Kering program that shines a light on the talent of women in the fields of arts and culture.

Conversations organised and presented by Federica Chiocchetti, Read More

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Female in Focus 2022: London Exhibition

An international photography award from British Journal of Photography, Female in Focus was established to champion the work of exceptional women photographers from across the globe and directly combat gender inequality in the photography industry. Globally, 70-80% of photography students are women, yet they account for only 13-15% of professional photographers, and that must change. Read More

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40 Under 40: Celebrating Women Artists

Celebrating Women Artists

Artist Reception: October 13 from 5 – 8pm

Schack Art Center is celebrating young women and nonbinary artists in this 40 Under 40 Exhibition, showcasing emerging young artists from around the Puget Sound.

Participating Artists

Mahllie Beck, Adia Bobo, Brooke Borcherding, Colleen RJC Bratton, Alison Bremner, Mackenzie Colby, Lee Davignon, Mallory Donahue, Claire Dong, Taylor Hudson, Read More

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Glean: Early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland

This ground-breaking exhibition presents the work of fourteen pioneering women photographers and filmmakers working in Scotland during the early 20th century. The women are Violet Banks (1886-1985), Helen Biggar (1909-1953), Christina Broom (1862-1939), M.E.M. Donaldson (1876-1958), Dr Beatrice Garvie (1872-1959), Jenny Gilbertson (1902-1990), Isobel F Grant (1887–1983), Ruby Grierson (1904-1940), Marion Grierson (1907-1998), Isobel Wylie Read More

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Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 4: Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates

Jerwood Arts and Photoworks present new commissions by Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates, awardees of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 4.

Now in its fourth edition, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice. The awardees were selected from over 370 applications to a Read More

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Hannah Starkey at The Hepworth Wakefield

Hannah Starkey

 

20 October 2022 – 30 April 2023

The Hepworth Wakefield will present the first major survey of British photographer Hannah Starkey, tracing the development of her work across two decades.

 

Throughout her career, Starkey’s meticulously choreographed photographs have determinedly engaged with how women are represented in contemporary culture, an issue which is now centre stage.

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WOMEN ON THE MOVE at f³ – space for photography, Berlin

WOMEN ON THE MOVE
EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN TRADITION AND ACTION

September 9, 2022 — November 6, 2022

With works by:  Maria Kapajeva, Natalia Kepesz, Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Oksana Parafeniuk, Alicja Rogalska, Violetta Savchits, Elena Subach, Agata Szymanska-Medina, Tatsiana Tkachova

Femen  in Ukraine,  Pussy Riot  in Russia, the 2020 women’s marches in Belarus and the fights against the abortion paragraph in Poland: something is happening in Eastern Read More

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Online exhibition ‘Open Fire’ by Marilene Ribeiro

Brazil’s National Arts Foundation is pleased to invite to the exhibition OPEN FIRE, by Marilene Ribeiro, which has been awarded the Funarte Marc Ferrez Photography Prize.

Focusing on fires that happen within the Brazilian territory, the majority of them criminal, OPEN FIRE incorporates the violence of the recent acts against natural and cultural heritage and exposes the Read More

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Svitlo

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

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Linda Nochin Fanzines

Fifty years ago, in January 1971, Linda Nochlin’s essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? was published in the American journal ARTnews. Few art historians have been as influential, prolific, and radical as Nochlin. Between 1960 and 2017, she wrote seventeen books and numerous articles examining the social history of women in the arts Read More

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DAUGHTERS OF THE SOIL – Exhibition, Joanne Coates

Daughters of the Soil is the culmination of twelve months research by documentary photographer Joanne Coates into the role of women in agriculture in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.

The work was produced during a residency with Maltings and Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) and Institute for Creative Arts Practice, which enabled the artist to Read More

Fast Forward – IN VOGUE – on line

Fast Forward has established a significance within the world of photography for highlighting the work of women photographers and for questioning the way that the established canons have been formed. By showcasing the best of emerging and established photography we have started an important discussion and network that will be on going and diverse.
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Together at Last – Exhibition by Natasha Caruana

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

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Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens

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

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Radicalizing Care Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating

What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating? Delivered through critical theoretical essays, practice-informed case studies, and manifestos, the essays in this book offer insights from diverse contexts Read More

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A Room of Her Own

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

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Maja Bajevic – ECHOS

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

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Rosângela Rennó: Small Image Ecology

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

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Representation of Women Artists in Britain Annual Research Report

This report, commissioned annually by Freelands Foundation, evidences the sixth consecutive year of data on the representation of women artists in Britain. This year, it also includes additional evidences that help to further understand the way that gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors intersect and impact on the career outcomes for artists.

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Eruptions: A decade of creation

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

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Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective

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

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A Lover’s Discourse Natasha Caruana

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

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Maria Antelman Self Circuits

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

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Barbara Hulanicki (London 1986, Apres Biba), Tamary Kudita (African Victorian Series), and Bunny Yeager (Bunny Yeager and her Circle: Miami’s Golden Age)

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

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My Name is Maya

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.

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I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women

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

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BOP21 – Books on Photography

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.

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Views From Coney Island Lauren Welles, Gisele Duprez

“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

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Helen Cammock: Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks

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

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‘Sexism Edu. Sexism in Danish Education and Research’: BOOK & WEBSITE

SEXISM AT DANISH UNIVERSITIES – THE ACADEMIC #METOO MOVEMENT

 

Friday October 2nd, 2020, a mail with an open invitation to sign the petition ’Sexism at Danish Universities’ went out from a group of 16 initiators to the entire Danish Academic sector.

The petition arose from a deep personal and professional desire to cast light on the prevalent Read More

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Helen Levitt: In The Street

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

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Marilene Ribeiro. Dead Water

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

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WOPHA Congress: Women, Photography and Feminisms. November 18-19, 2021

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

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HATCHED2021 – WOMEN: WAYS OF SEEING AND BEING SEEN

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

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Re-Assembling Motherhood(s): On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices

Re-Assembling Motherhood(s) invites the reader to learn about and from Maternal Fantasies ́ feminist research and collective artistic practice on motherhood(s), care work and representation in the arts.

Composed of seven interdisciplinary artists / mothers and ten children, Maternal Fantasies takes the social invisibility of the maternal experience as a point of departure to produce films, Read More

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Peckham 24 – SOLIDARITY: September 10-12

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

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A Life in Photography: the first ever retrospective exhibition of US photographer, Marilyn Stafford

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

The conference ‘Not Yet Written Stories. Women Artists in Central and Eastern Europe’

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.

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I’m going to carve the truth out of you

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

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Afghanistan on Screen

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

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Hall of Mirrors

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

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Struck by Light

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

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Conversation: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander

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.

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WOPHA Congress “Women, Photography, and Feminisms”

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

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BE AWARE. A HISTORY OF WOMEN ARTISTS

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

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Martine Gutierrez

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

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Much Unseen is Also Here: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander

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

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Move

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

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The New Woman Behind the Camera

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

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Claudia Andujar The Yanomami Struggle

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

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Book Club Live: Rania Matar

“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

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Dead Water

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

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Photo Café by GRAIN Photography Hub

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

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IN PROGRESS: Laia Abril – Hoda Afshar – Widline Cadet – Adama Jalloh – Alba Zari

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

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From Fairy Tales to Photography: Jo Spence

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.

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Tensed Muscles

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

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The Decisive Moment Art Full Frame

‘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

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The long and shortlists for the 2021 Photography and Moving Image Book Awards have been announced

The Foundation is delighted to announce the long and shortlists for the 2021 Photography and Moving Image Book Awards, chosen from over 180 submissions. The books in the running address global issues related to gender, identity, history, social injustices, community and memory.

Ranging from untold stories of contemporary society, to innovative thinking about the future of Read More

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The Living Memory Project: The Black Country

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

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Photoworks Photography+

This new issue of photography+ takes a closer look at the practice of three women artists – Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Lucia Pizzani, Xaviera Simmons – all of whom have been working towards exhibitions or making new bodies of work during lockdown.

We hear from Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, describing in her own words the motivations and connections which weave Read More

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Gaze Magazine

Stories have been told to us from a masculine perspective for so long that we need alternative storytelling ! With this ambition, Gaze, the magazine of female perspectives, was born in 2020. Through intimate storytelling, immersive reporting and a ton of photography, it’s an inclusive platform for the female gaze both in text and Read More

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10th KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 – The Winning Books

In total, 395 photobooks from 44 countries were sent in to the 2020 KASSEL DUMMY AWARD. The shortlist selection resulted in 47 photobooks.

Winners of the 10th KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020. Tofu-Knife by Kohei Kawatani (JP) / Rato, Tesoura, Pistola by Pedro Guimarães (PT) / The Land of Promises by Youqine Lefèvre (BE) / SPECIAL MENTION
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Photo London International Women’s Day issue: Helen Sear

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Photo London are delighted to present their magazine’s special issue dedicated to Helen Sear. Her practice focuses on the co-existence of human, animal, and natural environments and is rooted in an interest in Magic Realism, Surrealism and Conceptual Art.

In 2015, Sear was the first woman to represent Wales at Read More

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Artist Talk: Angélica Dass

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

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Aperture Conversations: Celebrating Women of Street Photography

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

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Health & Healing: SPOKEN PORTRAITS OF BLACK WOMEN

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

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ART TALKS: WHAT DOES FEMINIST PHOTOGRAPHY LOOK LIKE?

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

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Queer Formalism: The Return by William J. Simmons

New book Queer Formalism: The Return by William J. Simmons is the first installment in the Critic’s Essay Series published by Floating Opera Press. Comprising long-form essays, this series gives voice to critics who offer thought-provoking ways in which to subvert or replace normative modes of discussing culture.

Queer Formalism: The Return expands upon William J. Simmons’s Read More

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A Woman’s Work: a project led by Ffotogallery

Women’s role in industry and technology-based work in post-war Europe is a hitherto untold story, and audiovisual archives have tended to focus on male-orientated ‘heavy industries’ such as coal, iron and steel, or large scale engineering sectors such as shipbuilding, construction, aerospace and car manufacturing. Yet women continue to play a key role in many Read More

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Justine Kurland, SCUMB Manifesto

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

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Bristol Photo Festival: A Sense of Place

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

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Maria Kapajeva: Dream Is Wonderful, Yet Unclear

Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear is a multi-layered and multi-disciplinary story of the relationships between collective and personal memories by looking at the community surrounding a textile mill in Narva, Estonia, now closed, of which Kapajeva’s family was a part. The story of one small community is set in the larger context of post-industrial cities worldwide, Read More

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Kathegala Kanive (Valley of Stories)

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

Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency exhibition at MoCP

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

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Why have there been no great women artists?

Linda Nochlin’s landmark 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? heralded the dawn of a feminist history of art, daring to dismantle basic assumptions that centred a male-coded artistic ‘genius’. In 2021, Nochlin’s message remains as urgent as ever, and today Thames and Hudson publish the 50th anniversary edition of her text-turned-rallying-cry, Read More

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Women X Film Festival

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

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Indu Antony: Why can’t bras have buttons?

Description about the book written by Indu Antony:

This is my ഓർമ പെട്ടി. (Orma Petti translates as ‘memory box’ in Malayalam).
This ഓർമ പെട്ടി offers a tiny window into who I am.
The pandemic of 2020 and the lockdown that followed threw me, with a million others, into uncharted territories. However the feeling of isolation was particularly heightened Read More

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Curative Things: Medicine/Fashion/Art

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

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BOOK:Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the United States, 1850–1900

Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the United States, 1850–1900
By Katherine Manthorne.
Schiffer

Manthorne (California Mexicana), an art history professor at CUNY, provides a revealing portrait of early forgotten women commercial photographers in this graceful and thoughtful illustrated history. Filled with rare examples of the women’s art, the book provides short biographies of the photographers along Read More

New Book: Women and Photography in Africa

Women and Photography in Africa
Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges

Edited By Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo, Kylie Thomas

Copyright Year 2021

This collection explores women’s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa.

The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific articulations of gender and photography on Read More

Freelands Foundation’s reports ‘Representation of Female Artists in Britain’

Annual report ‘Representation of Female Artists in Britain’ by Dr Kate McMillan

This report, commissioned annually by the Freelands Foundation, evidences the fifth consecutive year of data on the representation of female artists in the UK. This year it includes 36 additional evidences that help to further understand the role that gender plays in the career Read More

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Three books: Women Photographers by Clara Bouveresse

Photofile series by Thames & Hudson
Author: Clara Bouveresse

Women Photographers: Pioneers (1851-1936)

A compact survey of pioneering women photographers at the dawn of the medium.

When women began working as photographers in the second half of the 19th century, the rules of the medium had not yet been codified and experimentation was the order of the day. As Read More

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A Place of Our Own by Iris Hassid

For six years (2014-2020) Tel Aviv-based photographer and artist Iris Hassid followed the day to day life of four young Palestinian women, citizens of Israel, who are part of a recent surge of the young generation of Arab female students attending Tel Aviv University.

Engaging in spontaneous, pleasurable, and often thought-provoking conversations, Iris Hassid photographed Samar (a fresh Read More

Human Gatherings a collective photography exhibition

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

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Being in a State of Salax

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

L’impronta Del Reale

“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

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Another Eye: Online Conference

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

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Between Mountains, Hills and Lakes

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

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DECOLONISING THE GAZE: Online Symposium

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

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Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence

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

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Shirley Baker A Different Age

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

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Photography and Social-environmental Issues with Marilene Ribeiro and João Kulcsár

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.

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Self Publish Be Happy: How To Online Masterclasses

How To Online Masterclasses give you access to some of the world’s leading photography-industry professionals who will draw on their own work and long experience to explore theoretical and practical issues related to image, book and exhibition making.

Each Masterclass will be an opportunity to go behind the scenes and learn how these experts work – Read More

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City Women: Photographs by Hannah Starkey

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

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Women in Art and Culture

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

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Velvet Black – Notes by Fleur Olby

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

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Zanjir: Amak Mahmoodian

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

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BJP: Women in Focus

Free Female in Focus E-Guide

Female is Focus is the global award celebrating female-identifying photographic talent

From 1854 Media, the Female in Focus e-guide celebrates exceptional work of women photographers around the world whilst drawing on a multitude of leading industry voices to explore how, together, we can push for gender equality in the photography industry.

The Female Read More

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Annegret Soltau: Spider

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

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The Photographers’ Gallery: Doris Derby’s talk

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

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Beg Steal and Borrow

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

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Mandy Barker: Our Plastic Ocean

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.

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Quinn: A Journey

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

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Conference | Darkrooms and representations: histories of photography, film and exploration

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

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Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain from 1933

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

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Haley Morris-Caferio – The Bully Pulpit

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

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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

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

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Claudia Andujar The Yanomami Struggle

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

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International Women’s Day 2020: women with influence

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

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The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts in the Netherlands

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

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In Practice: Total Disbelief

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

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Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media / The Foundling Museum

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

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Exhibition ‘Reversible’ by Constance Nouvel

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

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Photography Space & Violence: A Workshop

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

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Charlene Heath to Circulate and Disperse: Jo Spence, Terry Dennett, and a Still Moving Archive

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

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Framework

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

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Rebel Goddess Dragana Jurisic & Catherine McWilliams

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

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Immersive Technology Week at the Digital Hub

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

Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art

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

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Matrescence

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

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Seven Artists

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

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Photography Now 2019: The Searchers

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

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STILL I RISE: FEMINISMS, GENDER, RESISTANCE – ACT 3

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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LOOK Photo Biennial 2019

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

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I AM WOMAN: an exhibition

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

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Domesticated Land 2012 – 2019

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

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STREET / FORM

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

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Fast Forward conference at Tate Modern

Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team: Ayako Sano 1997 Sharon Lockhart born 1964 Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Heidi L. Steiger 2012 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P13235

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

BOP Bristol 19 / Artist Talks

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

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Women in Art: Is it all about talent?

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

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A Portrait Of…

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

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Her Ground: Women Photographing Landscape

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

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Resist: be modern (again) | Performance, Publication and Talks

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

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Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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

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TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENTS – STEPHANIE WYNNE

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

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Time to think

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

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KLASSE DAMEN! / CLASS LADIES!

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

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Alegra Ally New Path A Window on Nenets Life

Documentary photographer and anthropologist Alegra Ally travelled to the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia from October through December 2016 to study and document the Nenets way of life. For thousands of years, indigenous Nenets have lived nomadic lifestyles herding reindeer across the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic.The Khudi family is one of 12,000 Nenets still Read More

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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage

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

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Beyond the Perfect Image at Wellcome Collection

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

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Show and Tell: Women’s Voices in Audio Arts, Professor Jean Wainwright in conversation with Lucia Farinati at Tate Britain

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

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Dana Lixenberg in conversation with Magda Keaney

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

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100 First Women Portraits in Liverpool

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

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Two exhibitions at AUTOGRAPH / London

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

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Milla Talassalo 3

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

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There And Not There

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

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A “male artist” is a contradiction in terms

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

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Bedrooms of London

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

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Richard Saltoun Gallery: 100% Women

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

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Furies, Fairies, Visionaries

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

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Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers

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

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Maria Kapajeva: Test Shooting

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

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UCA Farnham: Graduate Photography Show

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

Pre-order So to Speak by Steffi Klenz

So To Speak tells the story of a separation through visual poetry and photographic imagery. The writing and photographs are the product of the period of one year of grief the artist experienced after the moment her long-term relationship ended and while still living in the same house as her former partner.The artist uses her daily walks Read More

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South Caucasus Moving Museum of Photography in Yerevan, Armenia

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

The Female Gaze: Activism through Instagram

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

i-D and Artforum: the printed magazine and the merging of art and fashion

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

Exhibition Opening – Island Hoping – Christina Dimitriadi

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

V&A Conference – Collecting Photography/Photography as Collecting

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 – a manifesto for photography

#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

Artist Talk – Chloe Dewe Matthews

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

PARIS PHOTO 2018: WOMEN, THE EXCEPTION AN UNDER-REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN PHOTOGRAPHY?

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

Bluecoat: Artists’ talks

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 Exhibition and events, Blank100 Gallery

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.

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Carole Evans Exhibition, PV and artist talk

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

SACAC: Illustrated talk by Sabeena Gadihoke

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

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Symposium: Women FIX Photography

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

Symposium: Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries 1750-1950

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

RPS Women in Photography Inaugural Lecture: Karen Knorr

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: Panel discussion on female artists in post-soviet countries

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

Photography & Gender Dynamics post #MeToo

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

Tate Modern Talk: MFON – Women Photographers of the African Diaspora

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.

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10×10 Photobooks presents ‘How We See: Photobooks by Women’

How We See: Photobooks by Women
New York: 10×10 Photobooks, 2018
Edition of 600
Designed by Laura Coombs

How We See: Photobooks by Women, 10×10 Photobooks’ latest project and publication presents a global range of 21st-century photobooks by female photographers.

With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is Read More

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Why Have There Been No Great (wo)Men Artists?

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’ – 100 Portraits by Anita Corbin

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

Women by Women Exhibition

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.

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Weibke Leister: Echoes and Callings

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

Radical Visions: the cultural politics of Camerawork 1972-1985

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

Dead Water – Photography by Marilene Ribeiro & Participants

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

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TBILISI ART FAIR: In and out of reality: Photographic image in Georgia

© David Meskhi. Abstract Body. 2017

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

Exhibition. MARCIA MICHAEL: I AM NOW YOU – MOTHER

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

Martha Langford – Who Can Tell? Histories and Counter-Histories of Photography in Canada.

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

The Discrete Channel with Noise – Clare Strand

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

She Looks into Me

“She looks into me” is a series of intimate images that hold a deep reverence for a time when the mystery of life and the mystery of death were closely related.

Conceived in a manner close to theater this book is divided in 3 chapters that explore the idea of human representation and how looking at Read More

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Geekender: Towards a Feminist Internet

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

In Search of Frankenstein: Photographs by Chloe Dewe Mathews

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.

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Sarah Jones

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

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

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Michelle Henning

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

WOMEN LOOK AT WOMEN

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

Mutations – Indo French image encounters

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’s retrospective at Jeu de Paume, Paris

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: two solo exhibitions

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

NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists

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

Dragana Jurisic | My Own Unknown

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

Cultural Sniping: Photographic Collaborations in the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive

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

‘Tribe’ a photography exhibition

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.

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Lola Flash: 1986 – Present

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

REDeye – Meeting point

Meeting Point

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

Trish Morrissey: A Certain Slant of Light – exhibition & symposium

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

Exhibition of 60 women artists’ video artworks at Horsecross / Scotland

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

URBAN ENCOUNTERS 2017: CARTOGRAPHIES – conference at Tate Britain

​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

11th African Biennale of Photography: Rencontres de Bamako

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.

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Then and Now: Japanese Women Photographers of the 1970s and ’80s Revealed Through Their Photobooks by Russet Lederman

Then and Now: Japanese Women Photographers of the 1970s and ’80s Revealed Through Their Photobooks
Russet Lederman

The paper was presented firstly at Tate Modern conference “Fast Forward: Women in Photography” in 2015. Now it is published in  Volume 8Issue 1Art and Vernacular Photographies in Asia, Fall 2017

“In March 2014, the Hasselblad Foundation presented the Japanese Read More

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Conference ‘Fast Forward: Women in Photography – Lithuanian Edition’

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

Talks

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

HYSTERIA Kickstarter company!

The HYSTERIA collective is raising funds for the printing and distribution of our eighth periodical on feminisms and power.

The HYSTERIA collective has been working very hard over the past nine months on the eighth issue of the HYSTERIA periodical. Now it’s time to share it with the rest of the world. But we need your help! Read More

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The Venus Project By David Scheinmann

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

LACUNA Kate Nolan

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

Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition in Estonia

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

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85

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’s exhibition at Autograph ABP

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

Exhibition Dis/Obedient Women – London

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

 

International Workshop: New Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices

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

Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora

Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora is an exclusive and commemorative bi-annual journal committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent. The inaugural issue of Mfon features 100 women photographers across the Diaspora. This iconic issue  features an introduction by Dr. Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and Chair of Read More

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Conference: Local/Global Dynamics in Feminism and Contemporary Art

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

Marysia Lewandowska: Women’s Audio Archive / Whitechapel Gallery

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

PARC: The Other Observers – Val Williams’ archive

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

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

OVERLAP : RELATIONSHIPS, REPUTATION AND LEGACY OF WOMEN ARTISTS

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.

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Exhibition & Study Day: Reflecting on Charlotte Salomon

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 SYMPOSIUM

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

REID GALLERY, GLASGOW – OBSERVING WOMEN AT WORK: FRANKI RAFFLES

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

ARTIST STORY Helen Cammock at Fabrica, Brighton

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