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Artist Alison Rossiter develops expired photographic paper to create photographs that reveal the previously invisible markings of time: wrinkles and folds, remnants of atmospheric pollution, stains, light leaks, even fingerprints. Join the artist, whose works feature in Time’s Relentless Melt, now on view at Art on Hulfish, for a discussion of her practice with Katherine Read More
Photo London – Artifacts and Models: Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer in conversation with Diana Poole
In the Swiss artist duo’s latest series, forgotten or discarded objects are given a new lease of life. Placed on a pedestal and in front of a colourful background, each object is shot on 35mm film, printed in the darkroom Read More
Walking through Lands: Gohar Dashti in conversation with Mary Pelletier
Gohar Dashti’s nuanced approach to photographing the legacy of war in her home country Iran has cemented her position within the medium’s history. Interpreting her subject not as a documentary photographer but as a conceptual artist, Dashti’s highly stylized, poetic observations open up conversations relating to Read More
Beyond the myth of Vivian Maier: Anne Morin puts one of the medium’s most elusive icons’ photographs centre stage
Vivian Maier – a mysterious nanny who took some of the best street photographs of the 20th century – captivated the world when her archive was first discovered in 2007. As the romance of Maier’s story started Read More
Alessandra Sanguinetti will be live in conversation with Rebecca Bengal discussing her new book – SOME SAY ICE – published by Mack Books.
On Magnum Photos instagram. 1pm NY time. = 10am PST time = 2pm Buenos Aires = 6pm UK time
@MACK_books and @magnumphotos
Alissa Everett will be in conversation talking about two decades of documenting social issues, remote locations and indigenous cultures
About this event
Photographer Alissa Everett will be in conversation with RPS President Simon Hill on two decades of documenting social issues, remote locations, and indigenous cultures from Iraq to Ukraine.
Everett initially began her journey as a photographer in conflict zones and Read More
Create/Feminisms (Middlesex University) is organising 4 online research seminars, held on Zoom, June-July 2022 (2-6pm, BST)
The 4 seminars programme and links
1) Decolonising Craft (June 14)
Keynote Speaker: Aarti Kawlra
Panellists: Fatima Hussain, Neelam Raina
Chair: Rima Saini
2) Feminist Pedagogies: learning to unlearn and decolonial toolkits (June 21)
Keynote Speaker: Dalida Maria Benfield
Panellists: Sharlene Khan, Michele Williams Gamaker, Isabelle Massu
3) De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Futures in Read More
Over the month of May, invited speakers will give a talk each week discussing how as artist parents/carers they balance and sustain their professional and personal creativity and the demands of a family.
Please note that all speakers are parents, and that the day and time of each talk will vary week by week. This is Read More
Conference
Curated by Delphine Bedel and Daria Tuminas
Between 6 and 8 May 2022, FOTODOK organizes the conference (IN)VISIBILITIES, Gender and Photography in the Netherlands. This is the conference’s second edition, following up from The Female Perspective in Documentary Photography, which took place at The Cobra Museum Modern Art, Amstelveen in 2019 on the occasion of the Read More
Accompanying their gallery exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens, this series of online talks with artists, activists and makers has been produced in collaboration with Kylie Thomas of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) in Amsterdam, and the editor of a special issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Read More
The RPS Women in Photography Group are pleased to be hosting an evening of conversation with Karen Knorr, HonFRPS and Anna Fox, HonFRPS to kickoff International Women’s Day and our week of celebrations of the women in photography.
With more than 70 years in photography between them, Karen and Anna will discuss what challenges they faced Read More
The Slade School of Fine Art was established in 1871 to teach fine art within a University setting. Ground breaking in terms of art education, both male and female students were taught from the beginning with parallel access to the life model. Initiated by Professor Liz Rideal, this symposium will offer historical perspectives alongside contemporary Read More
Online discussion “Feminist and Women’s Movements in the Baltics: Between Regional and Transnational Contexts”
On Wednesday, January 19, at 5:30–7:30 pm (UTC+2) Latvian Center for Contemporary Art is organizing an online discussion on feminism and women’s movements in the Baltics. The participants are researchers and artists from the Baltic region: Maria Kapajeva (EE), Piret Karro (EE), Read More
For photographer Elle Pérez, whose work is featured in the exhibition Orlando at Art on Hulfish, the camera is an instrument of recognition, creating intimate documents of community relationships. Pérez’s multifaceted practice of portrait, landscape, and observational photography centers on the complexity of personal identity. The artist will discuss images, identity, and storytelling across their Read More
This moderated conversation with Mikki Kendall will delve into her book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot. Mikki will share her ideas on resisting isolation as a critically engaged writer and artist involved in social movements. How creatives can work in collaboration with organizations to address issues like gun violence and Read More
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announce highlights of the inaugural WOPHA Congress. Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, this first international convening of its kind invites women photography organizations and artists around the world to an in-person and online space for dialogue, celebration, and critical debate about women’s contributions to Read More
Inspired by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert’s recently published Histoire Mondiale des femmes photographes, this presentation will investigate the extraordinary bodies of work produced by Japanese women photographers from the 19th century to today. Meant as a complement to a history of Japanese photography that is largely masculine, this talk will reveal the abundance and Read More
On 14 January 1971, The Photographers’ Gallery opened its doors with The Concerned Photographer, an exhibition that had previously been shown in the United States, Switzerland and Japan, and which presented photography as the optimum medium to document social conditions. This online conference has been organised to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Read More
In collaboration with Photo Oxford Festival 2021, hosted by the Maison Française d’Oxford, and supported by the Humanities Cultural Programme, the international and interdisciplinary Conference “Women, Memory & Transmission: Postcolonial Perspectives from the Arts and Literature” will explore what it means for women to transmit memories in postcolonial contexts. What strategies do women develop to Read More
Photographer Hoda Afshar takes us across history, dissolving the boundaries of staged and documentary photography to make visible the stories that are not immediately seen. In her new book, Speak the Wind (2021, MACK), Afshar looks at the southern coast of Iran in a narrative that blends poetry and the image to explore displacement and Read More
Through theatrical staging and colour, Namsa Leuba’s images explore the visual identity of the African diaspora. The Swiss-Guinean artist works across documentary, performance and fashion to question authorship and representation of the Black experience. Together with researcher and curator Nomusa Makhubu, they will look at ingrained perceptions of the West, the influence of movements like Read More
FotoFest is pleased to present a conversation between In Place of an Index artist Regina Agu and writer, curator, and Digital + Media professor at RISD, Nora Khan. Agu and Khan will focus their conversation on their shared interests in the intersections of critical theory, art, and technology using Regina Agu’s scanned image/alt-text generator artworks Read More
With National Geographic photo editor Jennifer Samuel as moderator, eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects discuss their group project published in National Geographic Magazine about the impact of migration on women worldwide. In a dynamic discussion, Amrita Chandradas, Danielle Villasana, Ksenia Kuleshova, Miora Rajaonary, Mridula Amin, Nichole Sobecki, Saiyna Bashir, and Thana Faroq touch Read More
A SYSTEM AMONG OTHERS? POWER, BALANCE, SELF-REFLECTION ON AND WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE.
An international Symposium on Photography and Ethics at the nexus of the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Practice. Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Lund University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Foundation and Landskrona Foto.
LOCATION
Landskrona Theater, Sweden. 30 September & 1 October 2021
This Read More
PHOTODEMOS – CITIZENS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: THE CAMERA AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION IS A COLLABORATIVE ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY AN ERC ADVANCEDGRANT AND BASED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UCL.
AS THE PROJECT DRAWS TO A CLOSE PLEASE JOIN US FOR A SERIES OF VIRTUALCONVERSATIONS WITH LEADING PRACTITIONERS AND THINKERS IN GLOBAL PHOTOGRAPHY. WEWILL BE PURSUING Read More
Lee Miller: Considering a Life of Artistic and Political Liberation
Thursday 10 June, 5pm BST
sussexfestivalofideas.co.uk
A round table discussion on the remarkable work of photographer Lee Miller. The event will consider how her visual practice was driven by notions of personal, artistic and political liberation which set her at the very front of the artistic Read More
The conference this year has moved to online format – this is the only way we can ensure the presence of our international speakers. Please join us online in zoom (in order to receive a link please send us your address via this form) or watch a Youtube stream (the link will be published soon).
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Join New York based artist Xaviera Simmons for a conversation surrounding her multidisciplinary practice and her work exploring labour and the working practices of society.
About the artist
Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974, New York, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Simmons’ interdisciplinary practice spans across photography, performance, choreography, video, sound, sculpture and installation. Rooted in Read More
Sarah Kennel and Andrea Nelson will discuss some of the critical issues at stake in the organization of exhibitions focused exclusively on women photographers. Kennel’s Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection is currently on view at the High Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases more than one hundred photographs from the museum’s collection, many of Read More
You are invited to this special online event to launch HAVING REGARD, a new video project by photographer Kate Nolan & composer Irene Buckley. This launch will be hosted by Trish Lambe, curator at Gallery of Photography Ireland.
Commissioned by Gallery of Photography Ireland to mark the Centenary of Partition, this ongoing interdisciplinary artists collaboration is Read More
On Friday 7 May 2021 Shutterhub are pleased to welcome Dana Stirling, photographer, curator and the Co-Founder & Editor In-Chief of Float Photo Magazine.
Dear Artist, We Regret to Tell You… – Dana Stirling
As artists we all face that dreaded moment of opening your email to a promising subject line, just to find the words “Dear Read More
Join the Royal Photographic Society for a new series of conversations with recipients of the internationally respected RPS Awards.
They’ve invited photographers and artists working across all genres of image-making, as well as curators, educators, cinematographers and publishers, to discuss their practice and inspirations.
The conversations will be led by those who know the award recipient well Read More
A film by Irene Lusztig
2013, 91 minutes, Color/BW, DVD, English/French, English subtitles
Archival montage, science fiction and an homage to 1970s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. After several years of buying films online and working in historical archives, award-winning Read More
Opened in 1977, the Museum of African Art: the Veda and Dr. Zdravko Pečar Collection in Belgrade, was announced as the only European anticolonial museum. This statement was rooted in the values of solidarity, anticolonialism and anti-racism that were present within the public discourse, tied firmly together in the foreign policy of the Socialist Yugoslavia, Read More
The Bristol Photo Festival and the RPS are hosting a one-day online symposium, curated by Jennie Ricketts. Through the work of photographers and those working within photography it explores themes around diversity and inclusion.
In order for diversity to have real meaning, people of different classes, ethnicity, ability, sexuality should be given equal opportunity for inclusive Read More
AWP are excited to be in conversation with Brooklyn based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer Delphine Diallo.
About this Event
Diallo combines artistry with activism, pushing the many possibilities of empowering women, youth, and cultural minorities through visual provocation. Diallo uses analog, digital photography and collages as she continues to explore new mediums. She is Read More
A film by Ellie Lobovits.
This intimate and personal documentary follows two women from Ciudad Juárez as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border legally to give birth in Texas, putting their hearts and bodies on the line as they confront harassment at the hands of U.S. border officials.
One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day Read More
Leica are pleased to announce the first annual Leica Women Summit. This tuition-free virtual gathering brings together a community of trailblazing visionaries whose dedication to the art and business of photography is shaping the industry today.
Focused on unlocking new opportunities for others, the Summit is an opportunity to learn from industry leaders in a series Read More
Made over a period of 6 years, Being Inbetween is a series of powerful photographic portraits of girls aged between ten and twelve, exploring the complex transition between childhood and young adulthood. With many portraits never-before exhibited, this is the most extensive exhibition of the series to date.
Driven by personal experience, award-winning photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn Read More
February 15 – April 15, 2021
sepiaEYE is thrilled to present Thrall (2017-2020), a solo online exhibition by Qiana Mestrich. By integrating the outdoor studio, staged portraiture, still life, and family photography, Mestrich externalizes her thoughts around recent political, social, and cultural discussions on white supremacy and Black consciousness.
“I was Read More
The Graduate Institute Geneva presents:
Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black Feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the Academy
HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA
12 April 2021, Online event
In this talk Heidi Safia Mirza draws on black and postcolonial feminist perspectives to explore ways in which professional Black and female academics in higher education engage in ‘embodied’ work towards Read More
AUTOGRAPH PRESENTS
18 MAR 2021
6 – 7:30PM (GMT)
ONLINE EVENT
£5
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, community organiser and bodyworker Omikemi will perform an excerpt from their collection of spoken word portraits, generated through Read More
The 2021 Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference (CABC) will focus on “The Temperature of Art Book Criticism and Scholarship.” As the scale of participation in and range of approaches to artists’ books and publishing have blossomed in recent years, now is a key time to develop new critical tools for assessing artists’ books and their broader Read More
Join Thursday, January 28th 5:00PM EST (United States) for a live conversation with Lucie Impact Award Honorees, Fabio Bucciarelli and Malike Sidibe.
This conversation will be moderated by, Andrew Katz, Deputy Director of Photography, TIME, with Fabio Bucciarelli Lucie Impact Award Honoree for his coverage of Covid-19, First Wave Coverage, Italy, and Malike Sidibe Lucie Impact Read More
This panel will address historical and contemporary misconceptions of the female body. Panelists will also delve into the history of women’s reproductive health care and how the fields of gynecology and obstetrics have been shaped by race and class-based discrimination.
Panelists include: OB-GYN and educator Wendy C. Goodall McDonald, MD, aka Dr. Everywoman; Scout Bratt, Outreach Read More
Carmen Winant is an artist and writer based in Columbus, Ohio whose work in Reproductive uses text and images to represent the agency of the female body. Her practice includes collage, installation, and mixed-media to create complex responses that counter representations of women. Carmen Winant has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her piece My Birth (2018) was Read More
In this on-going series of ‘in conversations’ hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All the speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Anna Read More
This series of talks and events is co-presented by the University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute, and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Originating in and celebrating the very latest and best scholarship in Asian art from around the world, this initiative complements the Art Gallery of Read More
This year, the annual Discovering Dalmatia international scientific conference organised by Institute of Art History, will take place virtually, over the course of three days, December 3-5.
This year conference, entitled Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation, is inspired by the Institute of Art History’s project Exposition [Ekspozicija]. Themes and Aspects of Croatian Photography from Read More
Image practitioners from India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka discuss the artworks and objects that define our present.
Join them for the final Sydney Asian Art Series event for 2020: a roundtable discussion with image practitioners from Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India, who will discuss the artworks and objects that define our present.
Thursday, 26 November 2020
4pm-5:15pm (Sydney)
10:30-11:45am Read More
Impressions Gallery invites everyone to Seedscapes Symposium
Dates: 21 November 2020
Time: 2.00pm – 5.30pm (GTM)
Admission: Pay as you feel
Booking: Essential
Why do seeds matter? How can artists and scientists work together? How might photographs catalyse change? Join artists Dornith Doherty, Sant Khalsa, Chrystel Lebas, Heidi Morstang, Read More
Feminist Library Webinar discussing the Feminist Library’s Black History Month Exhibition and Stella Dadzie’s new book
Friday, 30 October 2020
21:00 – 23:00 EET
Online Zoom event, tickets £5 (unwaged £0)
Feminist Library Webinar discussing the Feminist Library’s Black History Month Exhibition and Stella Dadzie’s new book
Join us for a conversation between Lola Olufemi and Stella Dadzie Read More
In this on-going series of ‘in conversations’ hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All the speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Anna Read More
Polly Braden is a documentary photographer whose work features an ongoing conversation between the people she photographs and the environment in which they find themselves. Highlighting the small, often unconscious gestures of her subjects, Polly particularly enjoys long-term, in depth collaborations that in turn lends her photographs a unique, quiet intimacy. Polly has produced a Read More
ONLINE CONFERENCE
24 October 2020
9am – 4.30pm
Free, book in advance
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women will explore the critical work of women writing about, collecting, and curating photography by women.
Key questions include how women’s voices are heard in the history and criticism of photography, the influence of the feminist movement on women photographers’ careers, and the Read More
