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A pioneering visual artist who burns her own work to highlight the ongoing threat of wildfires caused by climate change will be exhibiting her unique images at the University of Winchester’s West Downs Gallery.
Open Fire is an award-winning multimedia project created by Marilene Ribeiro, a former Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Media and Read More
The Shape of Things questions the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society. Featuring a ‘Who’s Who’ of Modern and Contemporary British artists, the exhibition digs into still life’s rich symbolism and how it’s pushed boundaries and new ideas.
The exhibition shifts from 17th-century ‘vanitas’ paintings Read More
Grain are hosting an online talk by Photographer Lydia Goldblatt, who will discuss her work including her new publication ‘Fugue’.
Lydia Goldblatt considers themes of origins, transience and emotional experience through a lyrical harnessing of photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface. Her works creatively fuse the approaches of both documentary and constructed photography. Tenderly Read More
Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist, working across moving image, photography and installation. With a background in anthropology, Echeverría challenges conventional narratives around identity and home, offering unique perspectives into a range of cultural contexts through the subjects represented.
In this talk, Echeverría will give background behind her latest projects and the wider political and social issues Read More
The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in collaboration with sepiaEYE with the support of The Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur, are pleased to present The Answers Take Time, a retrospective of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work accompanied by the monograph of the same title.
Curated by Esa Epstein, this exhibition showcases eight distinct bodies of work Read More
Karen Knorr: Intersections is an exhibition of photographs by the British-American artist, known for her visually rich, conceptually driven images that explore wealth, power and the aesthetics of beauty. It is on show from 12th September to 19th October 2024.
On view for the first time in New York are select works from Knorr’s Read More
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
‘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
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
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
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
We live in a time where the development of trends, technology, and politics is going at a breakneck pace. Moore’s law predicts that the amount of information, the amount of computing power, and the amount of memory power required, will double every other year in our hyper-technological society. This rapid acceleration changes how we interact Read More
Contemporary Photobooks from Australia is an evening of talks celebrating the display New Photobooks from Australia, curated by PHOTO Australia for the V&A’s Photography Centre. This symposium will feature a selection of women and non-binary artists who will speak about their practice and the experience of marking art in Australia today.
With opening remarks by Duncan Read More
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
The annual Feature Shoot competition showcases emerging international photographers who are transforming the medium with their powerful work. This year’s winners tell stories of displacement, disability, the cyclical nature of life and the beauty of the imagination.
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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
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
Nina Davies: For An Imaginary Page is an algorithmic selection of fictionalised videos for Soho Photography Quarter.
The series of videos encourages critical engagement with online creative content by using fiction as a primary tool. Combining existing TikTok posts with original texts and sound to produce fictional narrative works, Nina Davies asks “if algorithms were characters Read More
A lineup of photobook publishers from across the UK and Europe will be showcasing the latest in photography and publishing at BOP 24, the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society. The weekend will be accompanied by a programme of artist talks, exhibitions, events, book signings, street food, coffee and Read More
This public talk brings together two dynamic voices in contemporary photography from South Africa. Artist Alice Mann and photographer Ayesha Kazim will give insight into their creative processes, talking through the stories behind their striking images and the social issues that drive them. Central to the discussion will be the concept of ‘home’ – a theme that resonates deeply Read More
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
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
Rituals is a solo show by London-based photographic artist and researcher Francesca Hummler, MA in Photography. Hosted in the evocative setting of the Crypt Gallery, the work engages with a crisis of faith initiated by the artist’s entry into adulthood. Raised in the oppressive purity culture of conservative Protestantism in the United States, the work Read More
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
Photographer Elaine Constantine will give an MPF artist talk to launch her new photobook, I’m Com’un Home In The Morn’un, published by RRB Photobooks, 2024. In this work Elaine presents her dynamic and full-colour images that capture the northern soul scene of the 1990s.
This event and new publication have been programmed to coincide with her Read More
Thinking about starting your own archive?
Learn how archiving and archives have changed since the advent of the digital age and key areas to consider when starting your own archive.
Over six weeks, this practical course explores what it means to archive collections today – working with physical and/or digital material. Course leader Kathryn Tollervey starts by Read More
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
A Real Woman: now live on a street near you! Look out for the 11 artworks on thousands of outdoor billboards and digital screens across the four nations of the UK from 15 July – 12 August 2024.
Curated by Bakul Patki, the exhibition explores a multiplicity of bold responses to the theme ‘A Real Woman’, Read More
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
The RPS announces new tutors offering workshops from August to Novemember 2024 including, portrait, still life and landscape. Lynne Connolly, a Senior Lecturer in Photography at The University of Chester will be running three workshops: Introduction to Still Life, Exploring Still Life as Illustration, Introduction to Photomontage. Elizabeth Woodger is a photographic artist with a Read More
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
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
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
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
“All that has form will eventually vanish. Once the human body is lifeless, it cannot continue to exist in this world. This is an obvious fact, yet I sometimes find it impossible to accept. This was the case with my mother’s death, even though it is only natural for a parent to die before their Read More
Inspired by our organic relationship with nature and the elements, Marine Lanier observes the behavior of plants and the activities of gardeners, scientists and researchers at the Lautaret garden, the highest in Europe. Home to Alpine plants and essences from all over the world, it was created as part of the “Flying Alpine” operation, which Read More
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 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
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
Journey to the Center is a series that borrows the atmosphere and structure of the Jules Verne book Journey to the Center of the Earth to present the Central America migration route across Mexico as a heroic and daring journey rather than a runaway.
In this version of the journey, the starting point is Tapachula, the Read More
Grounded in the themes and passions that help distinguish the photographer’s oeuvre, at the heart of Mary Ellen Mark. Encounters are five of her most indepth projects, often realized most definitively in book form. These projects focus on institutionalized women in the Oregon State Hospital, street children in Seattle, as well as sex workers in Read More
Photography is a medium that has given us a unique insight into the human experience. Over five billion photographs Read More
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
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
Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to announce Exorcism: Inside Out, a solo exhibition by pioneering LA-based, London-born Feminist Surrealist, Penny Slinger (b. 1947). Spanning original photo-collage, print and video work, the exhibition coincides with the publication of Slinger’s iconic book, An Exorcism: A Photo Romance (Fulgur Press, 21 June 2024). After the original An Exorcism Read More
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
Join Kesaia Walker for a talk following the trailblazing journey made by two young Pasifika women from Auckland to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Gisborne in the 1950s and 1970s.
Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Gisborne, on the East Coast of the North Island, is the site of many historical firsts. A windy 500-kilometre drive from Auckland, two young Pasifika women — Piula and Read More
Artist Yasamin Ghalehnoie presents their work in this new talk as part of TPG series entitled Contingencies: Citizens and Photography.
Throughout 2024, the University of Westminster and The Photographers’ Gallery have invited various artists and photographers to explore the impact of their work within broader discourses, with each speaker discussing how photography is used as a Read More
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Farleys House, this talk looks at the extraordinary legacy of Lee Miller and the ongoing significance of the renowned photographer’s former home.
Now a museum and archive dedicated to the life of Miller and Roland Penrose, Farleys House was a vibrant hub of creativity, attracting celebrated figures of the day Read More
Photographer Isabella Franceschini has been awarded the prestigious Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2024, for her work ‘The Leap of Fish that Dream of Flying’. The Leap of Fish that Dream of Flying is a series that acknowledges our changing and mutual relationship with the environment and sustainable development.
Franceschini’s work focuses on the decommissioning of the Read More
In the US, approximately 1000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police. More than any other industrialised nation. My America is an archive of and memorial to victims of these encounters. The photographs, taken at locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, create a quiet but chilling critique Read More
HackelBury Fine Art, London is pleased to present Sharon Walter’s first London solo exhibition. ‘Seeing Ourselves’ features work from the ongoing series, in which Walters creates intricate hand-assembled collages honouring Black Women – their history, culture and identity.
“My work aims to explore and indulge in the multiplicity of Blackness and the embrace of our non-monolithic Read More
Critically acclaimed for her psychological landscape images, Awoiska van der Molen started out by photographing urban environments in 2003, shortly after graduating from art school. Now, more than twenty years on, she once again presents us with understated black-and-white photos of built-up environments that reveal traces of human presence. This time she zooms in on Read More
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
Join artist Françoise Schneiders for a talk focused on her work, F*ck you, I’m not your Dusky Maiden on display as part of the SaVĀge K’lub.
A direct response to Gauguin’s depictions of Pasifika people, in this series of photographs, Schneiders challenges the tropes of Tahitian women as ‘dusky maidans’ who are both ‘sexy and submissive’ and Read More
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
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
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
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
Goldin begins her film Sisters, Saints, Sibyls (2004–22) with the myth of Saint Barbara, presenting the story of the early Christian martyr as a three-channel projection that echoes the triptych format of classical religious painting. Images of Saint Barbara accompany a voiceover that describes her defiance of her parents’ beliefs, a transgression for which they tortured her. Read More
Discover the world of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942, Mexico City) which she presents in black and white – or as she describes it, as “an abstraction of the mind.”
Widely recognised for the poetry and introspection of her images, Graciela Iturbide captures her subjects with depth and sensitivity. Her photography offers a unique perspective Read More
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
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.
Muholi Read More
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
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
The brief is simple: follow the election and produce a piece of art. The resulting work will go to the Parliamentary Art Collection, the artist will get £20,000. There are just two rules – it must be politically balanced and it must reflect the entire geography of the UK.
For Read More
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
For over seven decades, Dorothy Bohm recorded the changing lives of women across the globe in her intimate, candid photographs. This centenary exhibition is the first to focus on Bohm’s warm, wry, and powerful depictions of womanhood.
Bohm came to the UK in 1939 as a child refugee escaping Nazism. She settled in Hampstead in the Read More
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
Tate Britain presents Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. This ambitious group show charts women’s road to being recognised as professional artists, a 400-year journey which paved the way for future generations and established what it meant to be a woman in the British art world. The exhibition covers the period in Read More
The article was first published at Colin Pantall’s personal blog. With his permission we re-publish this article on our website as a tribute to Bertien van Manen, who should have been known more by all of us.
BERTIEN VAN MANEN
by Colin Pantall
Bertien van Manen who passed a way over the weekend is a name that Read More
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
In the wake of international debates on gender and identities and the general trend of exploring women’s creative work, the new exhibition-production by MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography HerStories. Photographic practices, 1974-2024 seeks to showcase the domestic photographic production of women, from the 1970s onwards. The exhibition will be hosted in the Thessaloniki Read More
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
In I’m Com’un Home In The Morn’un, photographer Elaine Constantine presents her dynamic and full-colour images that capture the northern soul scene of the 1990s, depicting the extreme aerobics and the unstoppable energy of twenty and thirty somethings.
In the early 1990s Elaine moved from Manchester to London for her photography career and had been commissioned Read More
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
In the series Homesick, Ransom invited ten women and non-binary immigrants to share their stories and memories of homesickness in written form. They also provided a list of liquids that remind them of one of the places they have called home such as coffee, chicken broth, pisco sours, and kefir. She then soaked a roll Read More
Photographed with an analog camera over 19 years, Karen Knorr’s Connoisseurs & Academies series immerses us in the elaborate world of museums and stately homes, showcasing objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and academic structures. The use of animals as allegorical motifs, first introduced with a chimpanzee as the Genius of the Place, has become a hallmark of Read More
“At the end of Tish, the documentary about the photographer Tish Murtha, one of the lingering questions posed by her daughter Ella is how did this incredibly talented artist not manage to sustain a career in photography?
Murtha, who created unparalleled portraits of working-class life in Newcastle’s West End in the 1970s and 80s, has Read More
In Middle of Somewhere, Joanne Coates presents a major body of new photography work building on themes around class, gender, inequality and the rural. Coates has been collaborating with participants to explore parallels between people and places, delving into questions around climate change, the cost of living crisis, disparities of wealth and the impact on Read More
In May 2024, Baltic will present the first major retrospective exhibition of feminist, activist, social documentary photographer Franki Raffles (1955–1994). Raffles documented the lives of women in the UK, predominantly in Scotland, and during travels with her family in the 1980s across the Soviet Union (Russia, Georgia and Ukraine), China, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Israel and Read More
Listen To My Scream, Hear Their Dreams
Maria Kapajeva
17.04.-11.05.2024
Draakon Gallery
Pikk 18, Tallinn, Estonia
Maria Kapajeva’s exhibition is profoundly influenced by Draakon Gallery’s location directly across from the Russian Embassy in Tallinn’s Old Town. Positioned in this manner, Kapajeva aims to foster a more nuanced dialogue regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has led Read More
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
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
‘Photography: the Universal Language’ is an open call juried exhibition by Foto Femme United (FFU) Paris and Musée de la Femme Marrakesh. The exhibition aims to amplify the voices of female and non-binary photographers based in or from to the Arab World MENA region (Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Read More
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
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 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
It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of the brilliant artist Carolle Bénitah whose powerful works have inspired many people and whose inspirational conversation with Maria Kapajeva formed an important part of our podcast series Ways of Doing showing how women find new ways of Read More
Marilyn Nance: The Women of FESTAC’77 offers a curated selection from Nance’s vast catalogue of photographs and archival materials that revisits the memory of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC’77) from the perspectives of women artists in the American contingent. Objects from fellow participant Betye Saar’s archives are also Read More
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
What does it mean to be altered?
Like clothes are altered by a tailor to fit the wearer, so too are the records of history. Fragments of histories crafted, maintained for specific purposes, often silenced. The suppression of histories has shaped ideologies, social systems. The alteration of history has altered the fabric of society.
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The 2024 edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize will feature work by the international shortlisted artists: VALIE EXPORT, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye and Hrair Sarkissian, at The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
Now in its 28th year, the Prize has become renowned as one of the most important international awards for photographers, Read More
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
In her sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Dutch artist van Meene continues her exploration of female identity with 20 photographs made between 2016 and 2023. Many of her young subjects are on the cusp of adulthood and van Meene highlights both the psychological tension and confusion often experienced during these transitional years. Her unique Read More
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
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
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
Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography. They lived a century apart – Cameron working in the UK and Sri Lanka from the 1860s, and Woodman in America and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture beyond its ability to record appearance – Read More
‘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.
To find Read More
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
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.
The evocative Read More
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
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
In a world where millions of pictures are taken each day, I still believe photographs can contain meaning; they can become evidence of things not seen or heard… if, as I believe, to photograph is a desire to know something deeply and beyond the surface, I must be quiet to see. And attending to something Read More
Environmental Futures III: South Florida Women Artists brings together master and emerging women and non-binary artists, highlighting the concepts of environmental ecology, social ecology, and mental ecology, as referenced by Felix Guattari’s book The Three Ecologies. Guattari’s contribution to ecology studies resides in what he calls the ecosophical perspective– Read More
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
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
Photography’s multifaceted nature and expanded field of operations and the sheer volume of photographs existing in both physical and online realms present significant challenges for 21st century museums.
This 12-month research network aspires to transcend the disciplinary boundaries of art history, visual culture, photography, new media, museum and curating studies and bridge theory and practice. It Read More
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
Comprising constellations of never-before-exhibited photographs, Catherine Opie’s latest exhibition with Regen Projects raids the artist’s archive and offers windows into her community, city and social life, burrowing into the surface of Los Angeles like the famous cuts on the artist’s back, writes Zachary Korol Gold.
To read the article please go to the direct link.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art
about motherhood as a lived experience, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation: On Art and
Motherhood addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an
important – if rarely visible – cultural figure.
Featuring the work Read More
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
Catherine Wang from USA with her image The Gap wins Sony World Photography Alpha Female Award.
Set up to empower female photographic talent and promote their work to an international audience, the Alpha Female Award aims to create a powerful platform and ensure the photographic industry is a space where both genders can excel.
The award stems Read More
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this Read More
From the Tate Britain to New York’s Met, some of the world’s mightiest galleries have signed up for Katie Hessel’s audio guides, which shift the spotlight onto female artists like Rosa Bonheur – who required a permit to wear trousers.
Hessel’s audio guides have been launched to coincide with Women’s History Month at partner institutions worldwide Read More
Artists Asad Ali Zulfiqar, Hira Noor, Ume Laila and Waleed Zafar talk about their new work, made during the New Narratives in Photography residency programme, including a conversation about the importance of international collaboration and professional development opportunities.
The four artists all have a unique and personal approach to photography, exploring themes of identity, gender, diaspora and place making, they all have Read More
The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This event brings together researchers, artists, designers and activists from a range of backgrounds to consider local projects in intersectional, granular detail. Collectively, we will reevaluate the relationship between the arts, extraction and activism – both historically and Read More
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
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
A book about mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing. Published by GOST Books. The book will launch at Photo London in May with a solo exhibition with Robert Morat Galerie.
To find out more please go to the direct link.
What They Saw project, a touring exhibition accompanied by a publication and series of public programs, is a means to ignite interest in underexposed and undocumented photobooks by women made between 1843 and 1999 and to begin a process of filling in the gaps. The present show is organized in collaboration with 10×10 Photobooks, a Read More
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.
To find out more Read More
The WOW – Women of the World Festival is coming to Bradford and Impressions Gallery are joining the Weekend Takeover on Saturday 2 March.
WOW – Women of the World is a global movement celebrating women and girls and taking a frank look at the obstacles they face. WOW’s first Girls Festival is travelling across Read More
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.
This urgent and political Read More
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.
To find out more and access Read More
The Feminist Archive North (FAN) houses collections on women’s movements, organisations and campaigns. Its initial focus was the North of England, but its collections now cover the rest of the United Kingdom, parts of Europe and the wider world.
The material, which dates back to 1969, covers a variety of topics including:
the family
health
employment and other social Read More
‘…I set up the narrative sequences to work as advertising does, within a minimum of ten seconds.’ – Alexis Hunter
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Alexis Hunter (1948-2014), a pivotal figure in the British Feminist Movement of the 1970s, marking the gallery’s representation of her estate. Curated by Natasha Hoare, Read More
Sewing Conflict: Photography, War and Embroidery is a new solo exhibition by documentary photographer and filmmaker Jenny Matthews, whose work deals with issues of dispossession and human rights, with a particular emphasis on the lives of women and girls. She has worked all over the world for NGOs and on editorial assignments, covering momentous Read More
The Russian war in Ukraine directly affects culture by destroying museums and heritage. How does contemporary art resist and reflect such cruelty? What happens to contemporary Ukrainian art when it is caught up in war, and when it experiences constant, systematic trauma?
In her Read More
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
A new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers – Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler – that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject
Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of Read More
Breathing Space showcases the work of twenty-three women photographers from Iran and their diverse approaches to their craft. Exploring a range of photographic styles and genres, they record the past and present upheavals of their homeland as well as tackling subjects such as the nature of memory, the tension between tradition and modernity, and the Read More
Drawing Breath(less) is an exhibition presenting artistic experimentations with photography and sculpture that respond to impacts of climate change.
Fleeting moments of holding one’s breath in the urban environment, such as when crossing the road during heavy traffic, or after inhaling cigarette smoke when first emerging out of the train station, are small and frequent reminders Read More
Paula Cooper Gallery is delighted to present new video and photographic works by London-based artist Carey Young, including the US debut of Appearance (2023), her ambitious forty-nine-minute silent video featuring female judges. First seen in the artist’s major, critically acclaimed one-person exhibition at Modern Art Oxford in 2023, Appearance expands Young’s twenty-year investigation of Read More
Shining Lights is the first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking 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 sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both Read More
Two Maasai photographers chronicle the daily challenges facing pastoralist women as the climate crisis increases their burden of care, and food, fuel and water become scarcer.
Metito and Naneu were among 14 women in Kenya and Ghana who took part in a programme by Lensational, a social enterprise that supports underrepresented women to learn photography and Read More
The Feminist Interview Project, organized by Katherine Guinness and Jocelyn Marshall on behalf of CAA’s Committee for Women in the Arts, examines the practices of feminism by interviewing a range of scholars and artists, preserving oral histories while expanding the boundaries of what might be considered feminist. Throughout its interviews, this project reimagines the possibilities of feminist practice and feminist Read More
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
Daniil Melnyk is one of up to 50,000 Ukrainians who have lost limbs during the Russian invasion. With photographer Marta Syrko, he is sharing his story to battle stigma around disability.
To read the article please go to the direct link.
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
“The Orinoco basin is an isolated area of Colombia where many places are accessible only by boat. This image is part of a project describing it through the eyes of local women,” says Juanita Escobar, who tells the story of her image in her own words as part of the The Guardian’s Global Development monthly Read More
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
Urban Space: Definition of Univocal and Plural explores the level of spatial structure and spatial expression, and uses photography, video, painting, etc., to reflect and connect the singular or complex meaning of space and express the attitude and standpoint from four artists’ works, in exploring human’s past, now and future on specific areas, to reflect Read More
Panel Discussion with Anna Fox and Aldeide Delgado: What are the current issues women face in photography today?
Guest speakers Professor Anna Fox from Fast Forward: Women in Photography and Aldeide Delgado from Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) join us for a panel discussion moderated by workshop lead Elizabeth Ransom to uncover what the current issues women face in the Read More
A 24-hour broadcast streamed globally from Scotland from 12noon Sat 9th UTC to 12noon UTC Sunday 10th December
This coincides with Human Rights Day this weekend (this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Responding to the question: “what does peace sound like to you?”
broadcaster, writer and agitator Read More
Flowers Gallery is presenting the 41st edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition.
Small is Beautiful was first established at Flowers Gallery in 1974, inviting selected contemporary artists working in any media to present works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches. Continuing in the same Read More
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
The CRUX Photgraphy Research Network will present two new Zoom panels, The Landscape of Inequality, to announce its first international thematic project of the same name.
Many people believed the global free-market economy would generate wealth for all, but in fact it has polarized the world. Almost all inequality stems from human-enacted policies that affect income, Read More
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
Join us this winter as we continue our Conversations on Photography series to help create community and a forum for critical discussion of contemporary photography. Over this four-part series, artist and educator Elizabeth Ranson will introduce participants to contemporary issues facing women in photography today. With guest speakers from leading global organizations on women in Read More
Women working in education across Australia and New Zealand are invited to join this free event as we launch Women-Space Australia and discuss making career moves in 2024.
Planning career or job changes can be complex. Careful planning and gaining insights from others is essential when you are thinking about a Read More
Inspired by Arpita Shah’s Modern Muse series, a body of work that gives an insight into the perspectives of what it means to be a young British and Asian woman. The Centre for British Photography invites groundbreaking artists Chila Burman, Arpita Shah and Bindi Vora to discuss the concept of femininity within South Asian culture and Read More
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
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
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)—the world’s first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists—reopened on October 21, 2023, after a two-year renovation, revealing a transformed building, powerful exhibitions and engaging public programs. NMWA reimagined its historic home at 1250 New York Avenue in Washington, D.C., to offer flexible exhibition spaces Read More
In cooperation with researchers from the Institute of Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum, the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop is showing a group exhibition exploring the historical as well as current questions in artistic discourses on care work.
The works presented in Cooking Cleaning Caring: Care Work in the Arts since 1960 bring together Read More
Tate Britain presents Women in Revolt!, a landmark exhibition of feminist art in the UK from 1970 to 1990. It explores how interconnected networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Showcasing work by over 100 women artists and collectives living and working in the Read More
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.
Richardson Read More
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.
Works Read More
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
The Cité internationale des arts, in partnership with the Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir and as part of the 2023 edition of the Festival d’Automne, is presenting the group exhibition Trailblazers: feminisms, camera in hand and archive over the shoulder.
The exhibition looks back at the cultural and visual history of feminism in France in the Read More
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
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
October 1, 2023 — January 7, 2024
For centuries, women artists in Europe were considered rare and less talented than their male counterparts. Women who achieved professional artistic careers were deemed anomalous or exceptional, while those who engaged in creative pursuits in the home were dismissed Read More
Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil
Edited by Ursula Böckler, Julia Lazarus & Alexandra Weltz-Rombach
Can radical film practices help to understand a disintegrating world? Can they have a healing effect? How can we maintain structures of solidarity in the field of radical media production for societies in turmoil and transition? And what Read More
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
WOMEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, CONFLICT
Fast Forward: Women in Photography – Conference 4
16-17 November 2023
Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
We are happy to announce that the conference, which originally was planned to take place in Tbilisi (Georgia), will happen in Zagreb (Croatia) at Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in partnership with the Institute of Read More
Liz Wells, a writer, curator, and lecturer on photographic practices, is Professor Emeritus in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, at the University of Plymouth, UK and remains active in the Faculty’s international Environmental Arts research networks. Her research in photographic culture focuses on land, landscape, place, and environment, as well as on Read More
A special symposium hosted in collaboration with the V&A celebrating ‘Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back’ Andi Gáldi Vinkó, (Trolley Books) winner of the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Symposium 2023: Perspectives on Motherhood
16:00 – 19:30, Tuesday 14 November 2023
V&A, South Kensington, London SW7 Read More
Next Wednesday / 18 OCT MPF are holding an evening of short talks on photography and issues of displacement and the refugee experience. Speakers are Amak Mahmoodian, Frankie Mills, Adiam Yemane, Liz Hingley and Aida Silvestri. Complimentary nibbles and drinks provided.
THE SIM PROJECT WORKSHOPS
MEMORIES IN MOTION
‘As a migrant, I don’t really have roots, I have Read More
CONGRATULATIONS TO FAST FORWARD FRIENDS IN THE SHOW – THIS IS WONDERFUL! – THE FIRST OF ITS KIND – THINGS ARE LOOKING UP!
This exhibition is the first of its kind – a major survey of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It explores how networks of women used radical ideas Read More
The next MPF exhibition launched 28 SEPT bringing together for the first time the work of two photographers, Adrian Tyler and Jill Quigley.
Adrian Tyler presents Dust to Dust and Jill Quigley presents Cottages of Quigley’s Point, each exploring uninhabited homes and the objects scattered within them.
‘In this exhibition, two photographers carefully explore and engage with rural domestic ruins – more specifically, Read More
New work by photographer Jenny Matthews open
at Farleys House and Gallery in Chiddingly BN8 6HW
For over 40 years Jenny Matthew’s documentary photography has concentrated on the effects of conflict on women and communities. Since 2020 she has been making photo quilts/hangings with edits of her photos, which have been printed onto cotton linen.
Some images have Read More
How can artists create space in their work to reflect on colonial pasts? Join Mónica de Miranda and Professor Mark Sealy in conversation, and the launch of a limited edition book and print of de Miranda’s work The Island – a rare opportunity acquire work by the artist for only £100.
AUTOGRAPH, LONDON
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 6:30PM
Since 2018, Nepal Picture Library has been collecting photographs and other archival materials with the objective of creating an open visual repository of feminist experiences in Nepal. The Public Life of Women, originally curated as an exhibition, showcases selections from this archive. Put together from contributions made by over 150 individuals and organisations, this photobook Read More
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.
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
Coming soon – great new book
By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more Read More
Women Photographers in the West Coast Camera Club Environment Lecture
Wednesday, August 30th, 6:00 p.m.
at Cascadia Art Museum
190 Sunset Ave. S., #E • Edmonds, WA 98020, USA
At the turn of the century, as camera clubs were springing up across the country, the San Francisco-based California Camera Club was not only the largest Read More
Home Sweet Home is a research and publication platform to investigate independent, artist-led and, curatorial projects in India that exist on the fringes of the mainstream art market occupying non-commercial spaces, to enable artistic engagements.
Home Sweet Home started as an exhibition series in 2015 and occupied domestic spaces to exhibit works of art. It focuses Read More
Women | Photography, a newsletter edited by author Malavika Karlekar which foregrounds the role of women as visual chroniclers and creative artists, broadening the established canons of lens-based histories within and outside the subcontinent.
In this edition, researcher Senani Dehigolla narrates a personal account of her experience of the mass uprising on 9 July 2022 which took place on the streets of Read More
The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts is honored to present Women at War, curated by Monika Fabijanska and on loan from the Fridman Gallery (NYC), on view from July 13 to October 28, 2023.
Women at War features works by a selection of the leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provides context for the current Read More
Celebrating Female Photographers From Around the World
By Cassie
Fast Forward is a research project exploring women in photography. Launched in 2014, the project 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. Qissa sat down with Read More
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
V&A SOUTH KENSINGTON | ON VIEW UNTIL April 20, 2024
The Village on the Highway, 2021, the print commission by Gauri Gill, inaugurates the V&A South Kensington’s newly expanded Photography Centre. Visit the work in person until 2024.
Gauri Gill is an Indian photographer known for her collaborative work with peripheral communities, especially Read More
The workshop, designed to span approximately 1.5 to 2 hours, will begin with Dawn Woolley’s brief talk and introduction to her #RebelSelves installation, currently on show at Diskurs gallery. This interactive workshop empowers attendees to express themselves artistically, fostering self-exploration and creativity at different levels. Woolley will invite particpants to develop characters using masks and Read More
Join the international WAPG community Saturday 1 July 2023 for their very first WAPG online meet-up.
You will have the opportunity to share your practice in a safe space with like-minded lovers of alternative photography. As well as learn all about upcoming interviews, events, and opportunities happening at WAPG.
What to expect:
Meet alternative photographers from all over Read More
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
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
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
Helen Sear: Composites presents three large-scale composite works that emphasise the indivisibility of the human and the natural worlds. In the lightbox Caetera Fumus, a rapeseed field is pierced by arrows inspired by a painting of Saint Sebastian by Mantegna, and in the extraordinary multi-panel glasswork, Cold Frame, Sear presents a cold frame at the Read More
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
WOPHA team reports on the tour taken collaboratively with two teams: WOPHA and FAST FORWARD
“As the premiere stop in their US collaborative tour, the union of UK-based organization Fast Forward Women in Photography with Miami-based nonprofit Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) was a week-long celebration in March 2023 which highlighted and called to action for the Read More
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
Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) is thrilled to announce the 2023 Agent for Change workshop series. This year they will offer a series of three free workshops that explore photography as a tool for advancement in areas of social justice, racial equity, disability, environmental justice, visual literacy, storytelling, and cross-cultural communications. Registration is free, and space Read More
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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Ukrainian photography inspiring UK words
Open Eye Gallery is proud to be a commissioned organisation for EuroFestival, which will take over Liverpool in the lead up to The Eurovision Song Contest.
Working together with Ukrainian curators Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi (Ukrainian.Photographies) and partner organisations in Liverpool City Region, Open Eye Gallery will produce exhibitions, Read More
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
Theder
April 6 – June 4, 2023
Opening Reception: April 14, 2023 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Visible Mending with Patches: April 15, 2023 11:00 am – 1:00 pm FREE Family Workshop. Registration Required.
The often invisible work of caregiving is constant and undervalued. Tether explores narratives of motherhood and correlated Read More
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.
Lakeside Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Feminist Photography Network is a shifting collective led by co-directors Jennifer Long and Clare Samuel based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Our projects emphasize support and connection between artists rather than competition. We promote the careers of women and non-binary photographers, as well as research and reflection on the relationship between gender and lens-based media.
The web exhibition Read More
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
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
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
Celebrate the launch of the Women Alternative Photography Group with Founder and Director Elizabeth Ransom, Gül Cevikoglu and Megan Ringrose on the 25 March 6pm (GMT).
Women Alternative Photography Group is a feminist research project celebrating women, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, and gender-diverse artists from all backgrounds working with alternative photographic processes. Women Alternative Photography Group aims to Read More
KER is a photographic project investigating healing and resilience among female survivors of domestic violence through therapeutic storytelling and experimental photography. Domestic abuse is a cause very dear to Flochel’s heart because it is her personal story, just like it is for 1 in 3 women globally (WHO, 2021).
This project was born out of a Read More
This exhibition is an artistic experiment: presenting a research process as an installation. What can you do and what would you do with a random collection of photographs? The exhibition was commissioned by Estonian Art Museum Kumu for a project space at the permanent exhibition Landscapes of Identity: Estonian Art 1700-1945, curated by Linda Kaljundi Read More
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
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
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
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
It was difficult to select the books for this exhibition, but in the end I concentrated on books that I feel part of my experience on one side, and on books that are specifically related to environment, family or violence, in a broader sense, on the other side, as these are the themes discussed with Read More
So much is in midair. The daredevil dive from the bridge into the municipal river. A backyard trampoline jump executed with a kid sibling on the shoulders. A skate trick. A trio of grapefruits in the split second before they crash to the floor. A balloon. A BMX rider appearing to soar over the heads Read More
This is the first UK showing of this new exhibition by award-winning Azerbaijani photographer Rena Effendi, and brings together two related bodies of work made over the last ten years.
Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone is a moving portrait of the lives of elderly women in the Ukraine’s notorious Zone, the restricted area around Reactor 4 Read More
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
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
From February 16th, Le Bal presents the first solo exhibition in Franc dedicated to the Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska. Her work has been highlighted at the last Venice Biennale and she was the recipient of the Lewis Baltz Research Fund (2018) initiated by Le Bal. For the past ten years, she is developing a visual Read More
Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose practice encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curation and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as the National Trust, Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, Hiscox and private collections internationally. Recent solo shows include Constructed Landscapes, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela, (2022); Constructed Landscapes (vol. Read More
This multi-channel video installation from internationally-acclaimed photographer Emily Andersen, explores the work and life of Ruth Fainlight (b.1931) – an American-born poet and writer.
Ruth’s intensely visual poetry and fiction touch on themes of psychological and domestic situations, time, memory and loss. Born in New York City in 1931, she moved to England when Read More
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.
To Read More
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
Curated by Maria-Thalia Caras, the central exhibition of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art aims to think critically about co-existence and collaborative practices as creative tools for handling the multiple crises that we face. Thinking through being as communion, 28 artists via their respective practices touch on various forms of more than human collaborations, Read More
Museums are not only about objects, they are also about people.
Dr. Christine Checinska, Senior Curator of Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion
To celebrate our Africa Fashion exhibition, we made a worldwide public call-out for material to feature in the forthcoming show. As well as seeking out early designs by notable designers such as Kofi Read More
The Royal Photographic Society’s Women in Photography Group has announced the finalists of the inaugural Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition at an awards ceremony hosted by the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, as initiated by the UN General Assembly.
The Read More
The Score (You and I Both Know) is a new exhibition exploring the impact of war on populations living in the aftermath of conflict.
The free exhibition forms part of Conflict and Injury, a research project from the Department of War Studies investigating how war inflicts injuries on individuals, communities and their lived environments. Read More
Zaibunnisa, an Urdu word meaning ‘the beauty of women’ refers to Maryam Wahid’s Mother’s birth name prior to emigrating from Pakistan to the UK in 1982 for an arranged marriage.
The photographs tell the story of Wahid and her mother’s journey to Lahore in 2019; Wahid’s first-ever visit to Pakistan and her mother’s first visit in Read More
How can art be a catalyst for social change? During her 12-month residency with the University of Salford Art Collection, socially-engaged photographer Gwen Riley Jones worked closely with Salford Youth Council to explore art, creativity, and positive social action.
Click here to learn more about Gwen Riley Jones’ time as Socially Engaged Read More
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
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
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
Photography and Memory is a collaboration between the City Art Centre Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative Industries, and The Glasgow School of Art (GSA).
“Photography is the medium opening a window to a concentrated, captured memory. Such memory is evoked by an artist in an aesthetic condensation of the situation experienced.” (Walter Read More
Nominated in Best Documentary Film category at the 2023 Oscars, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic story about artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through her groundbreaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
The film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply Read More
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
Hapax are pleased to announce the six recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for the fourth issue, to be published early in Summer 2023.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected four artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication Read More
Ghanaian photographer’s crowdfunded project won support of Humans of New York author and boasts more than 30,000 books
The largest photography library in Africa has opened in Ghana’s capital, Accra, showcasing the work of the continent and diaspora’s forgotten, established and emerging talent.
Founded by Ghanaian photographer and film-maker Paul Read More
Photographer Rhiannon Adam will make history at the first openly-queer woman to travel to space after securing a place on SpaceX’s trip around the moon
A British photographer saw off a million other hopefuls to secure a place on a private trip around the moon on a SpaceX Read More
‘Putting Ourselves in the Picture’ a UK-wide training and mentorship programme for refugee and migrant women has seen a group of 22 women and non-binary people participate in 30 photography workshops and 64 mentoring sessions throughout the past year.
The programme has been initiated and led by Fast Forward: Women in Photography and had support from Read More
Part of the latest project from Fast Forward Women in Photography, Putting Ourselves in the Picture centres the lived experience of those working to build a home in the UK
In 2016, Vicky fled Uganda. “I moved because my life was no good there, here I have a chance to have a good Read More
North Edinburgh News
A mentorship programme at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has given six West African women the opportunity to tell their unheard life stories through the medium of photography.
Charting their individual physical, mental and spiritual journeys, the photographs will be on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery until 8 January 2023.
Today (5 Read More
Black Women Photographers disrupts the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives. Dedicated to providing a resource for the industry’s gatekeepers.
Established in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, Black Women Photographers (BWP) is a global community, directory, and hub of over 1,200 Black women and non-binary identifying photographers, spanning over 50 countries Read More
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
14 AND 15 NOV Justine Kurland will deliver 2 one-day workshops of photography and collage at Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, exploring her initiative – The Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books
This workshop follows her recent photobook – SCUMB MANIFESTO, published by MACK, 2022. This publication has just been shortlisted for the Aperture 2022 photobook Read More
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
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
For too long, artists have been told that they can’t have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm shift is needed within the art world to take account of the needs of artist mothers (and other parents: artist fathers, parents who don’t identify Read More
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
Open your eyes to a new worldview with 100 photographs from women and nonbinary visual storytellers.
85% of the world’s photojournalists are men. That means that an overwhelming percentage of our visual historical record has been seen through men’s eyes. To counter this serious ethical problem, Women Photograph flips that bias on its head to show Read More
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
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
Another Way of Knowing
Edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. Read More
Dr. Dawn Woolley will be in conversation with Dr. Jacki Willson to discuss some of the themes and ideas in the book.
Leeds Arts University Postgraduate Hub, Leeds Arts University, LS2 9AQ.
21st October 2022, 17:30 – 19:00
Free entry. Refreshments will be provided.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/consuming-the-body-9781350225299/
Dawn Woolley is an artist and research fellow at Leeds Read More
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
This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places – London and Athens – both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou conjures a third fictional staging that she has become all the more attached to. Her images are 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
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
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
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.
Starkey Read More
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
“The explosive and often subversive power of photography has served many political and social movements, and of late, the quiet historical force of the photograph has been well understood and channelised by scholars, practitioners and cultural initiatives committed to the recuperation and re-inscription of women’s history all over the world. Photography has had an important Read More
The artist’s current survey at the Queens Museum in New York revisits major milestones of her practice.
By Janelle Zara
The Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy has operated largely outside the confines of the art world and within the public sphere for most of her five-decade career. From the 1970s Read More
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
Celebrating female creativity is at the heart of what we stand for at the Women’s Prize. Consequently we were thrilled to have Anna Fox, acclaimed photographer, join us at the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction awards ceremony.
Recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Anna’s work has been included in numerous Read More
Alissa Everett will be in conversation talking about two decades of documenting social issues, remote locations and indigenous cultures
About this event
Photographer Alissa Everett will be in conversation with RPS President Simon Hill on two decades of documenting social issues, remote locations, and indigenous cultures from Iraq to Ukraine.
Everett initially began her journey as a photographer in conflict zones and Read More
Create/Feminisms (Middlesex University) is organising 4 online research seminars, held on Zoom, June-July 2022 (2-6pm, BST)
The 4 seminars programme and links
1) Decolonising Craft (June 14)
Keynote Speaker: Aarti Kawlra
Panellists: Fatima Hussain, Neelam Raina
Chair: Rima Saini
2) Feminist Pedagogies: learning to unlearn and decolonial toolkits (June 21)
Keynote Speaker: Dalida Maria Benfield
Panellists: Sharlene Khan, Michele Williams Gamaker, Isabelle Massu
3) De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Futures in Read More
In collaboration with Mira Matic and Kateryna Snizhko, Looiersgracht 60 is pleased to present the group exhibition, Svitlo. This exhibition brings together the work of 12 artists, including Nettie Edwards (UK), Cristina Fontsare (ES), Liz Harrington (UK), Poppy Lekner (NZ), Ky Lewis (UK), Anna Luk (UK), Sonia Mangiapane (AU/NL), Emilie Poiret-Brown (UK), Megan Ringrose (UK), Read More
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
After controversy on social media surrounding Newsha Tavakolian’s photographs of East Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières announces internal review
The celebrated Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian has defended herself against accusations of unethical practice after publishing a series of identifiable images of African teenage rape survivors made while on assignment for Read More
WomenTalkPlace are delighted to welcome Jini Reddy to launch the programme for the Talking Place Symposium.
Talking Place will take place over three days – an online day on Friday 2 September, and a two day symposium at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September. This evening they will reveal the Read More
Over the month of May, invited speakers will give a talk each week discussing how as artist parents/carers they balance and sustain their professional and personal creativity and the demands of a family.
Please note that all speakers are parents, and that the day and time of each talk will vary week by week. This is Read More
Re: Picturing the War
Two Photographers in Ukraine
Johanna Maria Fritz and Mila Teshaieva are two Berlin-based photographers. Johanna was born in Germany, Mila in Ukraine. Three days after the Russian invasion, they set off in an old Volkswagen Golf for Ukraine. They wanted to capture the horrors of the war and bear witness to the fate 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
A fabulous new book by Justine Kurland is out now published by Mack.
SCUMB Manifesto <br> Justine Kurland
SCUMB Manifesto
SCUMB stands for Society for Cutting up Men’s Books!
Article by Sean Hagan is on line in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/23/justine-kurland-a-new-scumb-manifesto-photography-collage-cut-up
A soft gaze at intimacy is an online community that reaches out to real life made of paper and connections; it’s a place to be, a place to sit quietly and a way to get in touch with the vulnerability and history of each person, of each artist. A publication that fuses power with fragility, Read More
Daughters of the Soil is the culmination of twelve months research by documentary photographer Joanne Coates into the role of women in agriculture in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
The work was produced during a residency with Maltings and Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) and Institute for Creative Arts Practice, which enabled the artist to Read More
Fast Forward has established a significance within the world of photography for highlighting the work of women photographers and for questioning the way that the established canons have been formed. By showcasing the best of emerging and established photography we have started an important discussion and network that will be on going and diverse.
Fast Forward Read More
In 2019 and 2020 Fast Forward created an annual list of the photobooks by women, which were recommended by various international experts. We aimed to bring more attention to some names and some titles, which deserve to be on the spotlight.
For 2020 we have asked to contribute: Rahaab Allana (Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts), Read More
Together at Last retraces the artistic journey of Natasha Caruana. By drawing from her personal archives or the intricacies of the internet, the English visual artist determines how each stage of her life as a woman works. Driven by the perpetual questioning of her status as a wife and young mother, Natasha Caruana considers her Read More
Accompanying their gallery exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens, this series of online talks with artists, activists and makers has been produced in collaboration with Kylie Thomas of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) in Amsterdam, and the editor of a special issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Read More
Four Corners are delighted to present their major exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens, which showcases striking images by photographers from across generations, who have used their cameras to support political struggle and social change in Britain from 1968 to today.
The exhibition centres the voices and perspectives of women and nonbinary photographers, and Read More
Buy art and design to support Ukraine: the sales and auctions happening now
“Discover how photographers, artists and designers are raising money for Ukraine’s humanitarian relief effort and find out how to buy their works
Galvanised by the mounting human tragedy of the war in Ukraine, many in the creative world have felt compelled to offer help in the best Read More
The RPS Women in Photography Group are pleased to be hosting an evening of conversation with Karen Knorr, HonFRPS and Anna Fox, HonFRPS to kickoff International Women’s Day and our week of celebrations of the women in photography.
With more than 70 years in photography between them, Karen and Anna will discuss what challenges they faced Read More
The Slade School of Fine Art was established in 1871 to teach fine art within a University setting. Ground breaking in terms of art education, both male and female students were taught from the beginning with parallel access to the life model. Initiated by Professor Liz Rideal, this symposium will offer historical perspectives alongside contemporary Read More
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
The following guidance was developed by VocalEyes with the Inclusive AD forum set up as part of the IDEA project, a collaboration of Royal Holloway University of London with VocalEyes. Download the guidance as a Word document.
Introduction
At the start of meetings, presentations and panel discussions, people introduce themselves. People who are not blind Read More
Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. This fantastic collection of images reflects that shift, showcasing 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world today, accompanied by personal statements about their work. Variously joyful, unsettling and unexpected, the photographs capture a wide range of extraordinary moments. The volume Read More
Sundaram Tagore is pleased to present an exhibition of work by eight pioneering women whose paintings, installations and photography reimagine spaces both real and symbolic. From an immersive large-scale light installation that transforms the surrounding environment to vibrant photographic imagery of staged narratives, this work challenges norms. Exhibiting artists include: Anila Quayyum Agha, Miya Ando, Read More
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
The Jean-Cocteau Cultural Center invites the Franco-Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic (Sarajevo, 1967) to present Echos, her first personal exhibition in a French public institution. Internationally renowned artist, Maja Bajevic took refuge in Paris during the Yugoslav conflict in the early 1990s. This ordeal animated in her a deep reflection on the political construction of identities Read More
In this exhibition guest curator, the artist NAGASHIMA Yurie, looks at works (including her own) produced by ten artists whose careers began in the 1990s, and offers fresh interpretations of these works from a feminist viewpoint.
Nagashima has been producing photographic work and writing since her own art-scene debut in 1993, all the while harbouring doubts Read More
Today, the V&A has announced The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, a major new curatorial programme to support women in photography. The Project, funded by Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and the Parasol Foundation Trust, encompasses a new curatorial post alongside acquisitions, research, education and public displays, aiming to foreground and sustain women’s practice in Read More
The São Paulo Pinacoteca, Museum of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo, celebrates the 35-year career of Rosângela Rennó (Belo Horizonte, 1962) with a panoramic exhibition that brings together around 130 works between 1987 and 2021. The Little Image Ecology exhibition presents the main arguments that the artist Read More
Drawing on the experiences of 22 women in 20 countries, a recent study illustrates the issues faced – and the acts of resistance carried out – by practitioners across the Global South. Brenda Witherspoon and Saumava Mitra report.
Across the Global South, women working as photographers for international media are dismantling systemic practices. These practices can Read More
Topical Cream, the non-profit arts organization founded in 2013 which supports the work of women and gender non-conforming individuals in contemporary art, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Topical Cream Prize. The Topical Cream Prize (co-chaired by Lyndsy Welgos and Marcella Zimmermann) is an unrestricted cash prize awarded annually to one artist Read More
In this interview, visual artist Tahia Farhin Haque from Bangladesh addresses how photography can be used as an agent for change by questioning and challenging gender prejudice and perceptions. Haque believes in the power of women who can influence the world through critical discourse and frequently places them at the centre of her projects in Read More
Changing forms of representation are fundamental to our understanding of the history of democracy. The Emergency in India – as well as its visual traces – imposed by Indira Gandhi’s Congress Government from 1975 to 1977, is widely held as one of the most controversial moments in the political history of the subcontinent since Independence. Read More
Life without photographs is no longer imaginable. They pass before our eyes and awaken our interest; they pass through the atmosphere, unseen and unheard…They are in our lives, as our lives are in them. – Lucia Moholy
In her book A Hundred Years of Photography, 1839-1939, photographer and historian Lucia Moholy examined the social impact of Read More
50 Feminist Art Manifestos is an anthology of original texts, edited and introduced by Katy Deepwell
Available from January 2022
This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feminist protests. Introductory essay by Katy Deepwell, with notes on each manifesto.
What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional Read More
“Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations” is an impactful 286-page photobook by editors Aldeide Delgado and Ana Clara Silva that centers around collaborative practices in photography from a feminist perspective. Presented alongside the 2021 WOPHA Congress in Miami, this publication works as a registry and collective manifesto of 40 international women and non-binary collectives Read More
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.
The annual reports starting from Read More
Eruptions marks Indian transmedia artist and activist Poulomi Basu’s (b.1983, Calcutta) first major international solo exhibition, which will show at SIDE from 30th October 2021 – February 6th 2022. The immersive installation of VR, film and photography will showcase the development of Basu’s participatory practice between 2009 and 2021. Shown together for the first time, Read More
Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective showcases the endless innovation and profound influence of this remarkable photographer who pushed the boundaries for both women in the arts and photography as an art form. Nearly 200 of Cunningham’s insightful portraits, elegant flower and plant studies, poignant street pictures, and ground breaking nudes present a singular vision developed over Read More
Natasha Caruana (b. UK, 1983) is no longer an unknown in France. Winner of the BMW Artist in Residence Award in 2014, she has nevertheless not gotten the exposure that she deserves. For fifteen years, the British artist has been fictionally creating scenarios that recount personal relationships, the complexity of positions in a heterosexual couple. Read More
This moderated conversation with Mikki Kendall will delve into her book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot. Mikki will share her ideas on resisting isolation as a critically engaged writer and artist involved in social movements. How creatives can work in collaboration with organizations to address issues like gun violence and Read More
Publisher: 10×10 Photobooks, NYC
Date of Publication: 2021
Editors: Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich
Associate Editors: Dolly Meieran and Jeff Gutterman
Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books, zines and scrapbooks. Some of the books documented are well-known publications such as Read More
Co-founded by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich in 2012, 10×10 Photobooks foster engagement with the global photobook community through the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of photobooks. The PGH Photo Fair has partnered with 10 x 10 Photobooks on all their previous touring reading rooms, including in 2019 for How We See: Photobooks by Read More
Aldeide Delgado sees Miami as a border, a meeting place, a city for global minds and ideas to gather and exchange perspectives and criticisms. Thus, it is the perfect venue for an international congregation of scholars and thinkers—in Delgado’s case, the inaugural Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Congress, a summit for women in photography that Read More
The gallery is pleased to announce its third exhibition with the artist, featuring a new series of photographs.
Self Circuits is a series of sculptural photographic works representing transformative, almost mythological experiences. These are binary unions of biological systems, as opposed to cyborgian bodies. Self Circuits are naturally instinctive and exist in the wild. It is Read More
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announce highlights of the inaugural WOPHA Congress. Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, this first international convening of its kind invites women photography organizations and artists around the world to an in-person and online space for dialogue, celebration, and critical debate about women’s contributions to Read More
FloodZone is an exhibition of an expansive and ongoing photographic series by Anastasia Samoylova, responding to the environmental changes in coastal cities of South Florida. By playing self-consciously with the familiar motifs and palette of the region, the photographs work as complex allegories. There are aerial photographs of the saturated topography; portraits of locals; and Read More
This exhibition explores photography and fashion through the work of three acclaimed multidisciplinary women artists: Barbara Hulanicki, Tamary Kudita, and Bunny Yeager.
Born in Poland, but raised in England, Barbara Hulanicki OBE is a renowned British fashion icon, having been awarded an OBE for Services to Fashion in the 2012 Queen’s New Year Honors. Hulanicki began Read More
The Fuentes Angarita Collection (FAC) presents the group exhibition Past and Present of the Body: 16 Voices of Contemporary Photography. The show explores the diversity of readings and ideas about the body, taking into account the works of both prominent and emerging women photographers. Curator Pietro Daprano asserts “For some people, their body is a Read More
WOPHA, in collaboration with 1854 Media and British Journal of Photography, presents the winners of the Female in Focus award, launched in 2019 in response to the staggering gender imbalance in photography. The exhibition will take place in Miami for the first time at the new Green Space Miami and in UK later this year. Read More
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
Belfast Exposed presents a solo photographic exhibition that showcases new works by Belfast Exposed Futures Artist, Manon Ouimet, ‘My Name is Maya ’. Ouimet’s series tracks her conversion to Judaism with her images reflecting her journey from spiritual desire to belong, through a calendar year of richly-grounding festivals, traditions and food.
The Belfast Exposed Futures Awards Read More
‘Dad is dead, come back home.’
This is how Ioanna’s sister announced the death of their father to her over the phone.
The return to her homeland Greece marked the departure on a journey of understanding death through family, religion, mythology and the self.
Her own grieving process became the lens through which she investigated the collective mourning Read More
Meşher
İstanbul, Türkiye
October 9, 2021–March 27, 2022
I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women features a selection of works by artist women who lived and worked in Turkey between roughly the 1850s and the 1950s. Realized under the patronage of Çiğdem Simavi and curated by Deniz Artun, the exhibition derives its name from one of Şükran Aziz’s exhibited Read More
Black women in Britain lift as they climb and have continued to do so for decades with minimal recognition or praise. Their fierce commitment to the collective care of their communities is sometimes to their own detriment. As our carers, educators, writers, activists, labourers and friends – who are susceptible to incomparable racial and sexual Read More
BOP – Books on Photography – is an annual festival bringing together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, booksellers and photographers from across Europe. This year BOP is in collaboration with Bristol Photo Festival, and will be held across Martin Parr Foundation, the Royal Photographic Society and the Paintworks Event Space, Bristol.
The festival provides an Read More
“If Paris is France, then Coney Island, between June and September, is the world.”
—George Tilyou, 1886
Despite the incessant predictions of its demise, Coney Island continues to attract visitors of all races, social classes and ethnicities, who, seeking respite from their quotidian stresses and routines, come together and inject the veins of “America’s Playground” with its Read More
Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks is a new film and installation project from artist, Helen Cammock.
Continuing a practice which harnesses film, photography, print, text, song and performance to explore social histories and interrogate mainstream historical narratives, Cammock brings together residents and community groups of Rochdale, Greater Manchester to articulate both individual and collective experiences as Read More
On 14 January 1971, The Photographers’ Gallery opened its doors with The Concerned Photographer, an exhibition that had previously been shown in the United States, Switzerland and Japan, and which presented photography as the optimum medium to document social conditions. This online conference has been organised to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Read More
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
In collaboration with Photo Oxford Festival 2021, hosted by the Maison Française d’Oxford, and supported by the Humanities Cultural Programme, the international and interdisciplinary Conference “Women, Memory & Transmission: Postcolonial Perspectives from the Arts and Literature” will explore what it means for women to transmit memories in postcolonial contexts. What strategies do women develop to Read More
The Photographers’ Gallery presents a retrospective spanning fifty years of work by the landmark American street photographer, Helen Levitt (1913–2009).
Taking place over two floors of the Gallery, this retrospective of more than 130 works will survey the full breadth of Levitt’s rich photographic practice, charting her journey from street reportage to documentary filmmaker and pioneer Read More
Highlighting questions around race and cultural difference, Sonia Boyce conveys political messages focusing on black representation and perceptions of the Black body through her art.
The British Afro-Caribbean artist gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s. Using drawing, print, photography, performance and installation, Boyce aims to shift notions of race that Read More
“How did the abolitionist movement interact with women’s entry into the field of photography? What does the medium have to do with menstrual taboos? Is there even such a thing as a ‘feminist image’?
Whether working in the studio or on the front line, women have contributed to every aspect of photography’s short history. For some, 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
James Cohan is pleased to present A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, an exhibition by Gauri Gill, opening October 7, 2021 at 52 Walker Street. This is Gill’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan and inaugurates the gallery’s new Tribeca space. The gallery will host a masked reception on Thursday, October Read More
From 1854 Media and British Journal of Photography, the Female in Focus award was conceived in response to staggering gender imbalance in photography. An open call to female-identifying photographers around the world, it is an annual initiative to promote and reward women’s work in an industry that disproportionately favours men’s.
From a pool of thousands of 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
Dead water by the photographer Marilene Ribeiro is the winning project of the last call for Discoveries PHotoESPAÑA. Year after year, PHotoESPAÑA selects the best portfolio from among all those that are presented to the viewings; the award consists of an individual exhibition during the next edition of the festival. On this occasion, Casa de Read More
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
November 18 – 19, 2021
WOPHA and PAMM announce the participation of 50 internationally-recognized artists, curators, scholars, and educators from around the world alongside 40 worldwide collectives and organizations of women and non-binary photographers in the WOPHA Congress, the first two-day public convening of its kind.
Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, the Read More
“Of all the neighborhoods I’ve lived in since I moved to New York City in 1997, none have affected me like Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I felt it immediately. Before the moving truck even left the curb I’d made a portrait. That year, in 2015, I started making street portraits of people in Bed-Stuy with my Read More
Raxma Xasan Maxamuud never wanted to leave her home in Somaliland. But a relentless cycle of droughts turned rivers to dust and dried up the grasses her livestock depended on. In Honduras, violence drove Kataleya Nativi Baca, a transgender woman, on a perilous journey to the United States border.
Women make up about half of those Read More
With National Geographic photo editor Jennifer Samuel as moderator, eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects discuss their group project published in National Geographic Magazine about the impact of migration on women worldwide. In a dynamic discussion, Amrita Chandradas, Danielle Villasana, Ksenia Kuleshova, Miora Rajaonary, Mridula Amin, Nichole Sobecki, Saiyna Bashir, and Thana Faroq touch Read More
The Photo Oxford 2021 festival will run from 15 October to 15 November 2021 in venues and public spaces across Oxford and online. The majority of the prgramme is free of charge.
The fourth Photo Oxford festival continues the theme Women and Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen, to complete and expand on the 2020 festival, which was Read More
Jerwood Arts and Photoworks are delighted to announce Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates as awardees of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards.
Now in their fourth edition, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-careerartists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice.The awardees were selected from over 370 applications to a national Read More
A SYSTEM AMONG OTHERS? POWER, BALANCE, SELF-REFLECTION ON AND WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE.
An international Symposium on Photography and Ethics at the nexus of the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Practice. Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Lund University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Foundation and Landskrona Foto.
LOCATION
Landskrona Theater, Sweden. 30 September & 1 October 2021
This Read More
HATCHED2021
photooxford.org festival
15/10-15/11 2021
WOMEN: WAYS OF SEEING AND BEING SEEN
OVADA, Oxford
04 to 06/11/2021
HATCHED is a creative platform promoting and sharing work addressing women’s issues and
experiences that range from ‘The personal is political’ to Human Rights. HATCHED was set up in
2016 by Maga Esberg and has been part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival since then.
2020-2021 has Read More
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
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
SOLIDARITY
The 2021 programme is created in response to the waves of protest and public demonstration that the world witnessed during the lockdowns of 2020. Exhibitions and live events programmed especially for the festival will give a voice to the urgent global issues of our time through the work of artists responding to the Black Read More
Retrospective exhibition unveiling decades of archive photography by US born photographer Marilyn Stafford to tour the UK 2021-2022
The first ever retrospective exhibition of US photographer, Marilyn Stafford (b.1925), launches this year, encompassing the most comprehensive display of the photographer’s work to date. Works come from an international archive spanning four decades, and include Read More
September 2-3, 2021
Conference organising committee: Barbara Borčić, Sandra Križić Roban, Marika Kuźmicz Lana Lovrenčić, Andra Silapētere
Organisers: Arton Foundation, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art- LCCA Riga, Center for Contemporary Arts – SCCA-Ljubljana & Office for Photography, Zagreb
Official language of the conference: ENG, the conference will be translated to Polish and will be held in Warsaw time.
We would Read More
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is intentional harm towards a person’s self without the intention of death. It can be a physical way to express emotions that feel limited by language or to alleviate the tension of withholding intense feelings. Through Solomons’ practical research, she highlights the need for interpersonal compassion towards individuals who feel isolated with Read More
#Herstories is a collection of interviews by AOP photographer Kate Abbey with prominent Women Photographers with the aim of increasing Women’s visibility in this field – #herstories are also a means of championing the outstanding work and achievements of Women Photographers and creating a legacy for future generations to aspire to.
f22 #herstory: Rhiannon Adam
From the Read More
In the attempt to shape further conversations on the devastating events taking place in Afghanistan, the ICA presents a curated selection of outstanding contemporary works by female filmmakers from and on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s long-lasting cultural effervescence has been heavily undermined by the recent foreign policies of major western governments and by the Taliban’s consequent gain of Read More
Born in Helsinki in 1972, Elina Brotherus today shares her time between Finland and France. A graduate of the Helsinki University of Art and Design, the visual artist has developed a body of work of photographic and moving images, influenced by the history of art, literature and architecture. Experimenting with self-portraits, she questions the relation Read More
Little Stories of Great Women Artists is an original project of playful and educational animated videos for children from the age of 7 and older. The objective of each episode? To shed light on the life and work of a woman artist from the 19th or 20th century in a three-minutes video. Imagined by screenwriter Read More
Screen Walks is a series of online streams with artists and researchers using the screen as their medium.
During her Screen Walk, Corinne Vionnet invited the audience to travel with her through collective memories of places existing in ubiquitous touristic photographs. Corinne explored how these memories form and what role this type of photographic overproduction plays Read More
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the sixth solo exhibition by Sarah Jones and her first in the gallery’s new location at 60 Three Colts Lane.
The new work by Sarah Jones builds upon her distinct photographic language that dissolves the hazy glare of day into the weight of a photographic night, condensing a recognizable sense Read More
We, Women, the largest social impact photography project by women and gender nonconforming artists, is currently underway across the United States. This project unravels the legacy of power structures constructed and maintained through decades of “othering” through imagery. Further, We, Women showcases an inclusive approach to photography, demonstrating that agency and social change happen when Read More
Experiments in the Wonder World of Photography ‘What is a 21st Century photograph?’ — ‘What does it look like?’
Ellen Carey, American Experimental photographer asks these questions about her own work, following inquiries to women photographers worldwide in an open call put forth by Hundred Heroines in 2020.
“Light’s immateriality challenges its makers today, analogue versus digital Read More
Conversation: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander
Thursday, July 22, 6 p.m.
Presented virtually on Zoom
Join exhibiting artists An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander for a conversation about their artistic practices and Much Unseen is Also Here.
If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.
For more details please follow the direct link.
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announce highlights of the inaugural WOPHA Congress. Titled Women, Photography, and Feminisms, this first international convening of its kind invites women photography organizations and artists around the world to an in-person and online space for dialogue, celebration, and critical debate about women’s contributions to modern and contemporary Read More
The San Francisco Museum of Art1 opened its doors on the top floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building in 1935. A year later, in October 1936, its first Director, Dr. Grace McCann Morley, would write to the Resettlement Administration in Washington D.C. being “anxious” to stage an exhibition of Miss Dorothea Lange’s photographs that were Read More
Sustainability and global food security are topics addressed in a documentary work which has been awarded the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2021, announced today. Photographer Isadora Romero has been awarded the prestigious prize of £2000 for her project ‘Muyu Lab’, a documentary series about the conservation of agrobiodiversity in Ecuador from a scientific and ancestral Read More
In the framework of the Generation Equality Forum, the non-profit organisation AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions teamed up with the designer matali crasset to imagine a documentary exhibition on the recognition of 20th-century women and the main actions taken to highlight their work in the history of art: « Be AWARE. Read More
In the world that Martine Gutierrez photographs, she exists as the cynosure of global desire. The artist’s self-produced (and wholly independent) art publication, Indigenous Woman (2018), places variations of her image and body at the center of countless mise-en-scène, as she disrupts, subverts, and reappropriates the rarified space of cisgendered identity and whiteness—no longer unquestioned Read More
Much Unseen is Also Here, an initiative of Toward Common Cause, brings together the works of two major artists who both consider the theater of the landscape, monumentality, cultural history, and representation.
Probing monuments and identity, An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander explore history’s embeddedness in our present. Lê’s Silent General (2015 – ongoing) presents large-scale views Read More
Interview of Nazik Armenakyan, co-founder of 4Plus
by Mathilde Roger
“At that time [in 2002], you couldn’t see women photographers. It was something new, unexpected and it was a really male dominated sphere” explains Nazik Armenakyan. Starting her career as a photojournalist for “Armenpress” an Armenian news agency, she followed in 2004 a photojournalism course organized by Read More
“I have always loved visiting the homes of others, not so much to see how people lived their daily lives, but in order to try and understand them better, and in my turn feel accepted by them, becoming part of their lives.”
Involved in this narrative there are people who are part of italian society’s collective Read More
In November 2020, photographer Ronan Mckenzie launched HOME: a north London creative hub encompassing a gallery space, open workspace and library, with a keen focus on championing the work of BIPOC artists. The space is now home to The Self Portrait, an exhibition in collaboration with WePresent that sees 13 Black women photographers present a Read More
Stills is delighted to present Move, a collaboration between Stills’ Creative Learning team, Works 4 Women and lead artist Morwenna Kearsley. Move is open from 24th June – 10th July 2021.
About Move
Exploring representations of women, culture, and ethnicity in the media, Move looks to expose unseen power dynamics between men and women in both public Read More
“As a documentary photographer, Esther Ruth Mbabazi is tasked with sharing an unflinching look at reality, whether she’s turning her lens on the objects South Sudanese refugees brought with them to northern Uganda or children in the country affected by a mysterious disease known as nodding syndrome. The Kampala-based photographer is known for capturing her Read More
SEEDS OF EMPIRE is a series of exhibition projects by the artist Joy Gregory and composer Philip Miller. The work combines still and moving image, drawing, text, objects, sound to create an immersive installation. Emerging from Gregory’s extensive research on the slave trade and colonial histories in Jamaica, the work looks at documentation of slavery Read More
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 New Woman of the 1920s was a powerful expression of modernity, a global phenomenon that embodied an ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art. Featuring more than 120 photographers from over 20 countries, this ground breaking exhibition explores the work of the diverse “new” women who Read More
An exhibition devoted to the life and work of Claudia Andujar and her collaboration with the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous peoples, who she has spent her life documenting and defending.
Over 200 photographs, an audio-visual installation and a series of drawings by the Yanomami are brought together for the exhibition. They reflect the dual Read More
The Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers – world first-ever winner announced
Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2021, the world’s leading awards for food photography, was delighted to announce, on Tuesday 27 April 2021, the first-ever winner of The CLAIRE AHO Award for Women Photographers in association with Aho & Soldan Photo and Film 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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“Rania Matar’s captivating photographs of young women around the world capture the transitory beauty of adolescence.” —Katie White, Artnet
As a Lebanese-born American artist and mother, Rania Matar’s cross-cultural experiences inform her art. She has dedicated her work to exploring issues of personal and collective identity through photographs of female adolescence and womanhood—both in the United Read More
This exhibition is part of the Official Section of the PHotoESPAÑA 2021 Festival.
Human intervention on nature and the effects on the individual are the central axis of this winning project of Discoveries PHotoESPAÑA 2020.
Agua Muerta is a joint project between the protagonists of the images – anonymously affected by civil works in regions of Brazil Read More
This Photo Cafe curated by artist Elisa Moris Vai will gather contemporary photographers for whom History is a substrate for creation.
Why and how do they address specific parts of History will be the focus of the evening. From research to the choice of mediums, from ethics to representation, travelling across personal and collective narratives, this Read More
The difficult task of being a (woman) artist in Caucasus
Interview by Ana Patladze
A.P. The project “A Woman’s Journey” documents women from different backgrounds from all over Azerbaijan. Each picture is then recreated by you wearing women’s clothes; you literally put yourself in their shoes… Women’s issues are one of the central subjects in your work. Read More
Ryesrson Image Centre has acquired a collection of works by two Canadian female photographers.
This exceptional collection of photographs, negatives, publications, and ephemera represents two generations of work by Canadians Minna Keene (1861–1943) and her daughter Violet Keene Perinchief (1893–1987).
Donated to the RIC by their family descendants, the archive illustrates the unique phenomenon of a professional Read More
The Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award has been jointly awarded to artists Sunil Gupta for Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity and Maria Kapajeva for Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear. Both Sunil Gupta and Maria Kapajeva are part of the Fast Forward team.
Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Brigitta Kuster win the Moving Image Book Award for Read More
IN PROGRESS is a new show commissioned by the RPS consisting of five solo exhibitions of both new work and work-in-progress, by five of the most innovative photographers and photo-based artists working today. The exhibition explores a wide range of issues – including personal history, cultural identity, nationality, community, migration, displacement, memory, responsibility, morality, belief Read More
Artists Heather Agyepong, Jessa Fairbrother, and Lua Ribeira have collaborated with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. In a series of separate interventions, the artists’ own work will be displayed alongside and interspersed with the Museum’s collections to encourage new dialogues around the works.
Memorialization in the Age of Forgetting | Heather Agyepong
Heather Agyepong utilises her own Read More
Drawn from one of the most comprehensive collections of Jo Spence’s works in the world, From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and wellbeing, celebrating her work as a photo therapist in which she used photography as a medium to address personal trauma, reflecting on key moments in her past.
Arnolfini Read More
Join New York based artist Xaviera Simmons for a conversation surrounding her multidisciplinary practice and her work exploring labour and the working practices of society.
About the artist
Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974, New York, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Simmons’ interdisciplinary practice spans across photography, performance, choreography, video, sound, sculpture and installation. Rooted in Read More
Unique and kaleidoscopic collection of feminist visual and literary art
The idea that women are dangerous – individually or collectively – runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today.
The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different Read More
Sarah Kennel and Andrea Nelson will discuss some of the critical issues at stake in the organization of exhibitions focused exclusively on women photographers. Kennel’s Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection is currently on view at the High Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases more than one hundred photographs from the museum’s collection, many of Read More
You are invited to this special online event to launch HAVING REGARD, a new video project by photographer Kate Nolan & composer Irene Buckley. This launch will be hosted by Trish Lambe, curator at Gallery of Photography Ireland.
Commissioned by Gallery of Photography Ireland to mark the Centenary of Partition, this ongoing interdisciplinary artists collaboration is Read More
Tensed Muscles is a collaboration between photographic artist Steffi Klenz and rappers Boss B & Brownsilla. Through imagery and music, they explore the relationship between the architectural promise of modernist living; of equality and opportunity, and the reality of living in Maiden Lane, Camden in the 40 years since the estate’s inception.
Steffi Klenz is preoccupied Read More
‘The Decisive Moment’ is what occurs when the visual and psychological elements of people briefly meet in perfect resonance, expressing the essence of that situation. ‘The Decisive Moment’ also happens as the photographer decides to raise their camera, compose the frame and press the button… click. Each photographer follows a different path, each has their Read More
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
If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect.
Written by Brigid Schulte and published on The Guardian website
A few months ago, as I struggled to carve out time in my crowded days for writing, a colleague suggested I read a book about Read More
On Friday 7 May 2021 Shutterhub are pleased to welcome Dana Stirling, photographer, curator and the Co-Founder & Editor In-Chief of Float Photo Magazine.
Dear Artist, We Regret to Tell You… – Dana Stirling
As artists we all face that dreaded moment of opening your email to a promising subject line, just to find the words “Dear Read More
Join the Royal Photographic Society for a new series of conversations with recipients of the internationally respected RPS Awards.
They’ve invited photographers and artists working across all genres of image-making, as well as curators, educators, cinematographers and publishers, to discuss their practice and inspirations.
The conversations will be led by those who know the award recipient well Read More
The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present the Living Memory Project’s, The Black Country. This exhibition marks the culmination of a four-year engagement with residents of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton in order to record, archive and celebrate everyday life stories and personal photographic collections.
To talk on record, to tell our life’s story, and Read More
To coincide with Female in Focus 2021, Gulnara Samoilova – one of last year’s judges – discusses her latest photobook, compiling the work of 100 women street photographers from around the world
Female in Focus is a global award recognising women’s extraordinary contribution to contemporary photography. Enter the 2021 edition now.
In the mountainous Adjara region of 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
In an iconic early series, the artist deconstructs the ethnographic gaze that has long trailed Black subjects.
By Sasha Bonét
I sliced a watermelon open across its belly last summer and gasped, as the red flesh and black seeds resembled bodies inside the barracoon. When I go to the nation’s edge and put my feet into the 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
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
A film by Ellie Lobovits.
This intimate and personal documentary follows two women from Ciudad Juárez as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border legally to give birth in Texas, putting their hearts and bodies on the line as they confront harassment at the hands of U.S. border officials.
One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day Read More
Leica are pleased to announce the first annual Leica Women Summit. This tuition-free virtual gathering brings together a community of trailblazing visionaries whose dedication to the art and business of photography is shaping the industry today.
Focused on unlocking new opportunities for others, the Summit is an opportunity to learn from industry leaders in a series Read More
The How To Self Publish a Photobook Workshop is a great opportunity for people interested in publishing their own photography book to discover insider secrets. Workshop participants will be given all the necessary tools and insight that they will need to start self-publishing right away.
The course covers a variety of contemporary publishing models, from the Read More
Article from the British Journal of Photography written by Gem Fletcher
Nearly 60 years after the women’s liberation movement, women’s rights over their bodies are still pendular. Bodily autonomy is under constant threat. Despite the active dismantling of the gender binary and the affirmation of trans lives, mainstream culture is only just beginning to push beyond Read More
In this episode, MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, is in conversation with artists Laia Abril and Elinor Carucci, who discuss their thoughts on candid depictions of the female body and their works in the MoCP exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency. The artists also share their thoughts on works in the museum’s Read More
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
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
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
SOKOHI Read More
Impressions Gallery online photo bookshop is now open! Take a look at the specially curated selection of self-published, signed and rare photobooks, and be inspired this springtime with the highlighted publications on nature and the outdoors.
Due to socially distanced working, Impressions Gallery will be shipping orders less frequently, with packing and posting taking place on Read More
Good News: The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is now available in Chinese!
Thanks to the great work of He Yining, Liu Zhangbolong, and Wei Ran, this book, which was published originally in 2018, was translated into Chinese and published by Posts & Telecom Press. The book comprises a range of essays and interviews Read More
Anti-discriminative posters are part of festival Art Night 2021, where commissions this year will have a political tone.
Written by: Gareth Harris
The Guerrilla Girls will be spreading their anti-discrimination message across the UK this summer with a series of billboard works on show in cities such as Dundee, Birmingham, Leeds and Cardiff. The initiative from the Read More
Catcalls of NYC is a grassroots initiative that uses public chalk art to raise awareness about gender-based street harassment. We solicit stories of harassment and their locations in NYC, write out the comments in chalk word-for-word with the #stopstreetharassment, and post the images on social media. The goal is to spur dialogue, provide a Read More
Cecilia’ed looks at disrupting normative notions of gender in public spaces by working with neighbourhood spaces that are marked ‘unsafe’ for women, using the politics of herd mentality and celebrity culture.
Taking Bangalore as the locus of the project, she has identified obsolete spaces like salons and bars, gendered spaces specifically, and intends to reopen Read More
OUR STREETS NOW is a campaign demanding the right of women and girls to feel and be safe in public space.
It started with a conversation. Two sisters, 15 and 21, spoke about how they experience the world as young women. How they feel scared walking home at night. How they feel anxious in Read More
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
Gain insight to the research and work of artist Angélica Dass
In a creative practice that constructs archives of personal narratives around race, gender, parenthood, Angélica Dass combines photography and activism to expose ongoing social injustices. In this new public talk, which also celebrates the publication of The Colors We Share (Aperture, 2021), the artist challenges Read More
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with Prestel Publishing, is pleased to present a conversation between leading street photographers Melissa O’Shaughnessy and Gulnara Samoilova, moderated by Aperture senior editor Denise Wolff. Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. In this discussion, they’ll celebrate two publications featuring the work of women in Read More
HUNDRED HEROINES
Nomination for Heroines 2021 – Now Open
One of the exciting ways in which we learn about Heroines is from you! There are so many fantastic heroines working in photography and related media out there – from those yet to be internationally discovered, to those whose contributions are underacknowledged, to others whose universal recognition deserves Read More
Autograph presents:
“Join us for an evening exploring what health, healing and liberation practices look like for Black women and non-binary people in the context of late capitalism.
Writer, healing arts practitioner and community organiser Omikemi will perform an excerpt from their collection of spoken word portraits and monologues in an audio-visual collaboration Read More
Cultural Council for Palm Beach County presents a special conversation on photography and feminism by 2021 Biennial curator Aldeide Delgado with artists Katie Prock and Ates Isildak. Delgado will offer insights about the Biennial concept and her curatorial vision through this compelling event, while the artists will respond to questions about their practice and recent accomplishments.
May 22, 2021
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Cultural Read More
By Eren Orbey
January 20, 2021
“Ioanna Sakellaraki’s series is an elegy both to her father and to the doyennes of a national tradition.
Ioanna Sakellaraki, a Greek photographer based in Brussels, left Athens at the age of eighteen to get an education abroad. She’d Read More
“On the occasion of International Women’s Day we celebrate the importance of the female gaze highlighting the work of emerging female artists selected by Fast Forward’s Co-Founder Maria Kapajeva.
A long time has passed since that 28 of February 1909, when the first National Women Day was celebrated by the Socialist Party of America in the Read More
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
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
WOMEN PHOTO GR, the first community in Greece dedicated to female, LGBT+ and non-binary photographers proudly presents WOMANHOOD IS, a virtual photography exhibition featuring artworks by 20 artists based permanently or temporarily in Greece.
20 artists / photographers explore views of womanhood.
For more information about the collective and the artists, please go to the direct link.
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
Collective art production and writing
Maternal Fantasies is an interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin. They shape the discourse on motherhood through collective artistic processes while enhancing the visibility of contemporary feminist positions addressing motherhood(s) in the arts. From writing autobiographical responses to classic feminist texts to devising performances using Read More
Higher Pictures Generation presents an exhibition of new photographic collages by Justine Kurland. This is the artist’s second presentation with the gallery.
In 1967 the radical feminist and writer Valerie Solanas sold copies of her newly authored SCUM Manifesto on the streets of New York’s Greenwich Village, charging $1 ($2 if the buyer was a man). Read More
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
“Her seminal works brought scholarship to the field and helped develop appreciation for it as a creative art form.
Naomi Rosenblum, who wrote about the history of photography and helped elevate it as an art form, died on Feb. 19 at her home in Long Island City, Queens. She was 96.
The cause Read More
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and innovative festival that celebrates the power and diversity of photography. They commission and produce national, international solo and group exhibitions in a biannual festival across the city of Bristol. They also run an ongoing national and international programme of talks, events, workshops and training through a partnership model Read More
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
Kanike are quite excited to collaborate with Aravani Art Project to bring to you a photo based exhibition by the members of The Aravani Art Project – Kathegala Kanive (Valley of Stories). Over the last few months the members of Aravani art project have been learning to narrate their stories using photography and cyanotypes guided Read More
F-Razzor is an artist-run solidarity fundraiser that will take place from the 8th of March till the 15th March 2021. Its aim is to address abuse of power and inequities in the Dutch art field through supporting survivors of sexual abuse and financing initiatives that aid in the prevention of future misconduct. F-Razzor is a reaction to the Read More
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 text was published in the exhibition catalogue ‘Anna-Stina Treumund’, Ed. Rael Artel. Tartu Art Museum, 2017.
“Entering the search term “lesbian feminism” into Estonian Google will give you less than ten results. They can be roughly divided into two categories: either anti-feminist rants on anonymous message boards or text fragments about the history of feminist 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
Join Loretta J. Ross, Visiting Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, for a special guest presentation on the history of BIPOC reproductive justice and oppression. Professor Ross will share a selection of photographs from the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, as part of a residency and collaboration between Read More
Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities people encounter in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility. The exhibition features eight artists who consider a range of topics including birth, miscarriage, pleasure, the lack of access to abortion, trauma, and the loss of fertility. The term “reproductive” is twofold. Read More
In this on-going series of ‘in conversations’ hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All the speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Anna Read More
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
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
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
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
Autograph’s Bindi Vora picks the projects and artists that made an impression on her.
“During 2020, I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking with many artists across the world and hearing about the work they have been making. Despite all the challenges of the past year, a highlight for me was seeing work by photographers Read More
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
The Woman Behind the First Photography Gallery
Helen Gee risked everything to open Limelight in 1954, selling prints by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, and Robert Frank.
“Helen Gee risked everything to open Limelight in 1954, selling prints by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, and Robert Frank for less than fifty dollars each. Her tell-all memoir, Helen Gee: Limelight, Read More
“If I did produce work in the last few years, it was at the cost of my sleep and health.” Hettie Judah speaks to 12 women about their experiences of motherhood in the art world.
To read the artcle, please go to the direct link.
Arnolfini, Bristol’s international centre of contemporary arts, has announced their revised Winter 2020/2021 exhibition programme, post lockdown, as part of a focus on health and wellbeing.
From 4 December through to 21 February 2021, Arnolfini present a major retrospective of the work of photographer Jo Spence (1934 – 1992), drawn from The Hyman Collection, which is Read More
Fairy Tales and Photography, or, Another look at Cinderella, a facsimile of Jo Spence’s ambitious BA thesis will be published in full for the first time. Written in 1982 by Spence, a cultural worker and photographer, this landmark thesis aimed to untangle interconnected gender and class oppressions in historic fairy tales. Spence asks ‘How do Read More
Are female artists still underrepresented in Britain? The answer is a resounding yes, according to the fifth Freelands Report into the representation of female artists in Britain, published last week. The report covers the year 2019 and according to its author, Dr Kate McMillan, her findings highlight “how far there is to go in recognising 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
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American icon. The late Justice, who died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and a trailblazing feminist who enshrined equal protections for women into the law. Over her 27 years on the nation’s highest court, Read More
“You can’t get that shot! Let me get it for you,” said a male photographer at a wedding as he grabbed my camera and proceeded to take photos. I was too stunned to react and watched him in stupefaction. It was the one of the many times a man had told me how to work Read More
As part of the PhotoOxford Festival 2020 the Pitt Rivers Museum’s staff have taken a fresh look at their huge collection of around 300,000 historic and contemporary photographs, and picked out one that for them resonates strongly with the Festival’s theme, ‘Women and Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen’. Although working mostly from home, Read More
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
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
une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes
Luce Lebart Marie Robert
Une fabuleuse somme collective, un livre manifeste, un ouvrage de référence
Cet ouvrage illustré par 450 images, présente les œuvres de 300 femmes photographes du monde entier, de l’invention du médium jusqu’à l’aube du xxie siècle. Rares sont celles dont les noms sont parvenus jusqu’à nous, disparaissant du Read More
Silence is Broken
We are legion. Legion who have experienced, word for word, dramatic situations close to those described in the investigation published in the Dutch newspaper NRC on October 30,2020.*
You knew, you knew but you stayed quiet.
Whatever his name was, you knew.
Let this be an earthquake.
What does it mean to report sexist or sexual harassment, Read More
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
Latvian National Museum of Art
14.11.20 – 24.01.21
From 14 November 2020 to 24 January 2021, the exhibition “I Remember, Therefore I Am. Unwritten Stories: Women Artists’ Archives” organized by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art will be on display in the 4th floor exhibition halls of the Latvian National Museum of Art. The exhibition will bring Read More
For its eleventh edition, LagosPhoto Festival turns its gaze to the burning political, civic and
aesthetic ramifications of restitution. It re-routes the optic and debates from Paris,
London, Amsterdam and Berlin back to the African continent. Relocating discussions on the
return of cultural heritage, it steps aside from the opinions of experts and museum
directors and turns its attention Read More
A Picture of Health is a group exhibition of contemporary women photographers from The Hyman Collection who have responded to subjects of health and wellbeing. Featuring autobiographical perspectives to social commentaries on the wider society, A Picture of Health is a timely exhibition as those throughout the world are united by the effects of the Read More
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
Impressions Gallery invites everyone to Seedscapes Symposium
Dates: 21 November 2020
Time: 2.00pm – 5.30pm (GTM)
Admission: Pay as you feel
Booking: Essential
Why do seeds matter? How can artists and scientists work together? How might photographs catalyse change? Join artists Dornith Doherty, Sant Khalsa, Chrystel Lebas, Heidi Morstang, Read More
Feminist Library Webinar discussing the Feminist Library’s Black History Month Exhibition and Stella Dadzie’s new book
Friday, 30 October 2020
21:00 – 23:00 EET
Online Zoom event, tickets £5 (unwaged £0)
Feminist Library Webinar discussing the Feminist Library’s Black History Month Exhibition and Stella Dadzie’s new book
Join us for a conversation between Lola Olufemi and Stella Dadzie Read More
In this on-going series of ‘in conversations’ hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All the speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Anna Read More
Polly Braden is a documentary photographer whose work features an ongoing conversation between the people she photographs and the environment in which they find themselves. Highlighting the small, often unconscious gestures of her subjects, Polly particularly enjoys long-term, in depth collaborations that in turn lends her photographs a unique, quiet intimacy. Polly has produced a Read More
ONLINE CONFERENCE
24 October 2020
9am – 4.30pm
Free, book in advance
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women will explore the critical work of women writing about, collecting, and curating photography by women.
Key questions include how women’s voices are heard in the history and criticism of photography, the influence of the feminist movement on women photographers’ careers, and the Read More
This exhibition examines social gatherings—connecting individuals and communities.
With the new rule of (6) photographers explore their own archive looking back at a time of gatherings, clubs and protests.
Celebrating the archive, from the 1980s to present, with photographers and artists
Exhibitors include—Josie Barnes, Alex Brattel, Roz Cran, Stuart Griffiths, Sharon Haward, Amanda Jobson, Ian O’Leary, Wai Ho Read More
“Media are still full of photos and videos from the events in Belarus. The key force behind the recent mass protests in Belarus are female politicians who have led the action – including the opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya – and the self-organized initiative “women in white” who have made a brave stand against the horrifying Read More
In 1912 Ernest Jones, a student of Jung published a paper about the lustful fixation of humans towards salt. The salted paper technique was created in the mid-1830s by English scientist and inventor Henry Fox Talbot. The artists at Kanike have been obsessively working with this medium and would love for you to experience the Read More
Why are middle-aged women invisible? Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition When the World Blows Up, I Hope to Go Down Dancing will be on display at Art Hall Gallery from 17 September. The artist addresses the social pressures that accompany women throughout their lives and looks for ways to confront them. The curator of the Read More
“Photography is the art of fixing a shadow” said William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the inventor of photography on paper, to which the Estensi Galleries dedicate, from 12 September 2020 to 10 January 2021, “L imprint of reality. William Henry Fox Talbot. At the origins of photography “. This is the first major Italian retrospective Read More
Four Corners are delighted to announce the Another Eye conference, celebrating the contribution of women refugee photographers who came to Britain after 1933. Presentations will cover these photographers’ work across portraiture, reportage, social documentary and architectural photography, and how the European cultural approaches that they brought with them informed British visual culture. In particular the Read More
PHotoESPAÑA presents the 2020 Discoveries participants who have been selected through an open call.
The PHE Discoveries Week is a professional meeting for photographers that is held every year, coinciding with the Official Inauguration of PHotoEspaña, at the headquarters of PIC.A Escuela Internacional Alcobendas PHotoEspaña, at Espacio Miguel Delibes.
All participants will have the opportunity to be Read More
Work Show Grow is an educational online community for creatives from all levels, stages and entry points, which supports your growth through school membership, mentorship, workshops and events.
Work Show Grow was founded in 2018 by Natasha Caruana, an award-winning and internationally recognised artist and educator. Art education has changed a lot in the past two Read More
As the train departs from Zürich HB, where the iconic Mondaine railway clock hangs above the platform, the passengers are about to enter a world that will awaken their senses and leave them with visual experiences they won’t easily forget. The southbound journey to Lausanne, a city more than 200 kilometers from Zürich, is characterized Read More
Following on from our regular face to face research symposiums in which we share ongoing practice, this is a 2- part online event that will take place on 17th and 24th September 2020 6-7.30pm. Registration is free but you will need to book a place to receive the Zoom links for the sessions. The links Read More
Part of Yale MFA Photo’s Pop-up Q&A series via zoom, which started in response to online learning during the 2020 pandemic.
Catherine Opie on Lewis Hine, perseverance, and why we cry on airplanes.
To watch: go to the direct link.
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
Renée Mussai is Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial & Collections at Autograph, London. Mussai has organised numerous exhibitions in Europe, Africa and America, and over the past few years curated a series immersive gallery installations with contemporary artists, including Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (2017–present), Lina Iris Viktor’s Some Are Born To Endless Night — Read More
Initiated during the first month of government-mandated lockdown, Autograph’s curatorial team Mark Sealy, Renée Mussai and Bindi Vora have been in close dialogue with a constituency of creative practitioners in the immediate artistic community, to develop this new series of artist commissions under the overarching title Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other. Read More
National Museum of Women in the Arts (USA) presents data on gender inequality in the arts
The Numbers Don’t Lie
The truth is that women have never been treated equally in the art world, and today they remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses. Counting and quantifying won’t solve discrimination, but statistics are Read More
“In response, artist and data journalist Mona Chalabi offered her version of what the composition of a museum collection should look like if it were to represent the entire population.
In recent years, museums in the United States have been moving toward diversifying their permanent collections to remediate the historical underrepresentation of non-male and non-white artists.
However, a Read More
DASH ARTS Organisation presents:
In this LIVE episode from our 100th Dash Café (January 2020) we delve into the life and legacy of French Surrealist icon Dora Maar.
The photographer and artist’s radical work strikingly depicts the anxieties of interwar Europe and the internal horrors of the mind. Yet Maar was often overlooked, Read More
Judith Butler presents a lecture and live Q&A chaired by Amia Srinivasan that draws on her new book, which shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality.
The Force of Nonviolence argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region Read More
A discussion session with scholar and editor of Burn it Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, Breanne Fahs and writer Lola Olufemi, focussing on selected manifestos in this landmark collection spanning four generations of feminist activism and writing. Burn It Down! is a window on historical feminist thought, providing a prompt to consider contemporary activisms.
Manifestos Read More
The Holberg Prize is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law or theology. This year the 6 million Norwegian kroner prize (approximately £500,000) has been awarded to the British-Canadian art historian Professor Griselda Pollock who the judges described as “the foremost feminist Read More
About The Exhibition:
Exhibition curator: Ximena Echague (Belgium) and Fernanda Pineda (Colombia)
VASA Exhibitions is presenting a series of exhibitions curated by Ximena Echague (Belgium) titled “Magical Realism”. The series will host the work of Latin American Women photographers.
Magical Realism is a Hispano-American literary movement Read More
James Hyman Gallery presents an online exhibition of largely unseen photographs by Shirley Baker selected from the British photographer’s Estate.
The exhibition, which goes live from 22 June to 24 July via the Gallery’s website, includes Baker’s rare colour work as well as a selection of iconic black and white images.
Focusing on Shirley Baker’s celebrated street Read More
Essays: June 4th, 2020
George Floyd, Gordon Parks, and the Ominous Power of Photographs
From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, can images help fight injustice?
By Deborah Willis
“ “I find it difficult to look at these photographs without flinching from the memories and from the anger they invoke. But I must look. I must remember, Read More
SUNDAY, JUNE 7
10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. (ET)
[The discussion will also livestream on the Focus on the Story Facebook page]
Cost: Free
In isolation, collective action through body solidarity never looked so good. Intertwined bodies locked in resistance, fists raised, feet on the ground – these images push against Read More
The future of Farleys House and Gallery is threatened due to COVID-19 closure. This fundraiser is to help ‘The home of the Surrealists’
Farleys House and Gallery Ltd is a small family run business that has been running for over 40 years. The business is based in Read More
LaToya Ruby Frazier on speaking through portraits, locating light within people, and transforming oneself in time of crisis.
Part of Yale MFA Photo’s Pop-up Q&A series via zoom, which started in response to online learning during the 2020 pandemic.
To watch it, please go to the direct link.
Part of Yale MFA Photo’s Pop-up Q&A series via zoom, which started in response to online learning during the 2020 pandemic.
Nan Goldin on activism, film making, and male photographers.
To watch: go to the direct link.
A conference addressing the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC and non-binary artists.
ArtEZ Arnhem (NL), January 18, 2020
In January 2020 ArtEZ Arnhem organized the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts that dealt with the undeniable under- and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world. Read More
“The Association of Photographers f22 group aims to increase the visibility of women commercial photographers at all levels.
Formed in the 1980s, it was revived in 2019 to address inequality in the photographic industry.
And members have been documenting their experiences of lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Here is a selection of images, with descriptions by the photographers.”
To Read More
Join photographers Karen Knorr and Anna Fox in conversation, as they discuss the aesthetics and socio-political issues explored in their photography.
Photographers Anna Fox and Karen Knorr sit in conversation with Sabina Jaskot-Gill, Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. The discussion explores the aesthetic questions and socio-political issues broached by two important series of Read More
The Paranapiacaba Photography Festival (São Paulo, Brazil) will be officially launched this Wednesday, 06/05, where João Kulcsár will interview visual artist Marilene Ribeiro on the subject “Photography and Socio-environmental Issues” this Wed, 06/05, 22h (BST)
You can access the talk through the live stream via the Festival Instagram account HERE
or by following the direct link.
For Read More
n.paradoxa’s MOOCs online
A new advanced course on feminist art manifestos.
Reading and discussing these manifestos provides a means to explore feminism in relation to contemporary art.
There are 6 lessons in this course.
This course is based upon Feminist-Art-Manifestos: an Anthology, edited by Katy Deepwell, and published by KT press in 2014. A free copy of Read More
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
Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain 1933 – 1969 /
Reviewed by Ellie Howard
27.02.20 – 02.05.20
Four Corners / London / England
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“A survey of Jewish émigré photographers, titled Another Eye: women refugee photographers in Britain after 1993, begins with poignancy. Slightly jaundiced and rumpled at the corners, the framed pages of Erika Koch’s album show photographs of relaxed Read More
Special Fundraising Sale. 100% of profits will go to support the National Health Service.
The James Hyman Gallery have put together a selection of works by some of the major photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at reduced prices, and will donate all profits to the National Health Service.
Following the launch last week, they have Read More
Whilst everything is up in the air, Work-Show-Grow is here to support and motivate; encouraging you to learn, create and connect. Work-Show-Grow is hosting a free programme of virtual events over the next four weeks with a packed schedule of artist talks and Live Q&As, positive mental health activities and creative exercises. The programme is Read More
In our visual-first culture, image is everything. Snapping, sharing, scrolling – our photographic appetite is gargantuan. But how literate are we when it comes to photography? And why does it matter? For one, research just released by the Mental Health Foundation underscores the universal, morbid, psychological effects of exposure to images of unattainable, commerce-driven body Read More
In 2019, the Guildhall Art Gallery appointed Hannah Starkey as Guildhall Artist-in-Residence. The residency aimed to support an artist in the development of new work created in and about the Square Mile. The theme for the inaugural residency was ‘Celebrating City Women’.
For over twenty years Starkey has dedicated her photographic practise to the representation of Read More
On the occasion of Women’s History Month, the Museum of Art & Photography in collabor