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Here and Then by Kirsty Mackay is a photography exhibition about home, connection, class and the lottery of birth.
The photographs in Here and Then come from a searching examination of personal identity. One that intertwines with the identity of place. Personal experience that is closely connected and entangled with the city of Glasgow. It asks Read More
A Collective Diary: Sexual Fantasies is the first museum solo exhibition of Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos, recipient of the 19th Foam Paul Huf Award. Bringing together an intimate and deeply personal body of work, largely made in her hometown of Beirut. Boulos turns her camera towards the spaces, bodies and intimate encounters that exist beyond Read More
In On Rape and Institutional Failure, an exhibition centered on the second chapter of her ongoing project A History of Misogyny, Laia Abril examines different forms of violence against women throughout history.
Weaving together images, compiled testimonies, archival materials, select objects, and installations with sound and video, the exhibition investigates how gender-based stereotypes, coupled with worldwide Read More
Middle East Archive and Foam are united by a belief in the power of photography to preserve, connect and reveal new perspectives. This year, Middle East Archive and Foam join forces to present two exhibitions in Amsterdam-West: at the creative space MAQAM and at Mercatorplein.
At MAQAM, the group exhibition Al Nisa / النساء brings together Read More
Images live their own lives, independent of those who create them. It was in Nicaragua that Susan Meiselas came to understand this. In 1978, the photographer, just 30 years old, traveled there for the first time. She had previously studied visual education at Harvard University, published a highly acclaimed first book on striptease shows, and Read More
Introducing the first co-created Freelancers’ Handbook and Resources Directory by Arts Council England, offering practical support to the 30% of the workforce operating as freelancers across the cultural sector and the organisations that work with them.
Created in response to data and insight from the 2024 Cultural Freelancers Study which surveyed more than 5,000 cultural freelancers, Read More
The Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize (formerly Taylor Wessing) showcases the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography.
The competition celebrates a diverse range of images and tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of works, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and intimate moments Read More
Radioactivity is invisible, yet popular culture insists on making it shine. From glowing objects and luminous bodies to contaminated landscapes and spectacular scenes of disaster, images of radioactive pollution have shaped how nuclear power is imagined, feared, desired and remembered.
Drawing on her doctoral research, Fannie Frederikke Baden presents Nuclear Baroque a scholarly monograph investigating the Read More
The project Acedia by French photographer Louise Desnos offers a visual exploration of idleness, fatigue, and intimacy.
The word acedia refers to a state of profound boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist celebrates idleness, so often disparaged in a contemporary society increasingly focused on productivity and constant self-optimisation. Taking the opposite tack to these Read More
The exhibition Feminist Futures Forever brings together 237 artists from different generations. At its
core is the plurality of their artistic practices. Feminist demands, their sociopolitical impacts, and diverse temporalities become linked. Each concern critically engages with its respective history and present, but also addresses the conditions of an imagined future. Feminist Futures Forever follows this Read More
Bringing together artist Charan Singh and poet and activist-scholar Dr Nat Raha and a third speaker to be confirmed, this panel will consider what happens when colonial language is used to categorise queer lives – and what becomes possible when those terms are challenged.
Across photography, poetry, writing and critical research, the speakers examine the enduring Read More
The symposium brings together the prizewinner and shortlisted artists from this year’s Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award. The programme includes presentations by prizewinner Sasha Kurmaz and shortlisted artists Janet Delaney and Hoda Afshar, alongside Lewis Chaplin (Loose Joints), designer and publisher of Afshar’s book. Varied in topic, geography and style, the speakers will present their books Read More
a/part is a major solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Hoda Afshar. Known for work that explores the unspoken forces and structures that determine who is permitted to appear, speak and be heard, and who is excluded from the social and political order, Afshar challenges the divisions between participation and exclusion, prompting audiences to question Read More
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, is a major touring exhibition that explores the people and places that have helped shape art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, Earthly Paradise highlights individuals and communities that defied contemporary conventions and the homes they Read More
Resonate Arts invites you to the launch of Landscapes of Memory, a book by Masoud Alikhani and Katerina Kalogeraki.
Part artwork, part conversation, part shared journey, Landscapes of Memory traces a creative relationship that unfolded through photography, collecting, storytelling, walking and making. Over time, Masoud and Katerina developed a collaborative practice rooted in curiosity, attentiveness and Read More
Artist Sarah Pickering joins us for a talk on her photographic practice, sharing images from many of her early series before introducing her latest work. Through her image making Sarah examines mediated versions of reality, scrutinising issues raised by such subjects as fakes, tests, hierarchy, class, the paranormal, explosions, photography, and gunfire.
Sarah’s early projects explore Read More
Looking the World in the Face honours the contributions of Indigenous and racialized artists to the visual culture of Canada. By focusing on faces, the exhibition demonstrates how historically marginalized communities defy the dominant gaze by telling their stories and disrupting stereotypes.
The varied works, all in the medium of photography, offer insight into the preoccupations, Read More
Are collaborative approaches to photography a feminist act? Drawing on her doctoral research into Ffotogallery’s archive of documentary photographs of the South Wales Valleys, Sam McGuire will consider the role gender played in Francesca Odell’s practice. Through close reading of Odell’s prints and contact sheets, Sam will argue that Odell’s access to her subjects, photographing Read More
Chester Photo Festival 2nd edition will showcase the work of international artists exploring the theme of photography through myths, feelings, memories and personal stories. There are exhibitions, tours, drop-in portfolio reviews, artist talks and networking events at venues across Chester.
Exhibiting artists include: Alicia Lehmann, Ania Ready, Claire Maxfield, Dawn Woolley, Holly Birtles and Orchid Li.
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NO KINGS – Signs of the Times, the new book by acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas offers a unique intersection of documentary photography, contemporary politics, graphic culture and social history.
A timely visual record of American protest during Trump’s second presidency, up to the 2026 midterm elections, capturing the humour, anger, creativity and political concerns of ordinary Read More
This exhibition focuses on the role that nature and creativity can play in healing from trauma, particularly in the context of male violence and abuse against women and girls. New photographic work by Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora will feature alongside works created by women from four refuges across the country, each working with a lead artist to Read More
We are the story: Migration, Memory, Identity and Belonging is a documentary research project that explores Malawian Zimbabwean identity and belonging by exploring issues of colonial labour migration, family fragmentation and postcolonial citizenship. The project utilises Angela Jimu’s own family history and lived experiences and that of others to interrogate the notion of identity and Read More
Experience the first major exhibition to examine Baltimore’s pivotal role in the history of photography.
Featuring more than 200 images spanning 185 years, Flashback traces photography in Baltimore from its earliest forms to unforgettable contemporary works. From rare daguerreotypes and Civil War–era photographs to images captured during landmark cultural moments of our time, the exhibition shows Read More
Great Women Photographers, edited by Phaidon with an introduction by Fiona Rogers, Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the V&A, is a showcase of more than 250 women photographers who have captured some of the most remarkable images to date, celebrating their extraordinary vision and indelible impact on visual storytelling.
Both an essential historical Read More
Graces Mews presents What Rose from the Cut, a group show exploring feminist strategies of collage.
Developed collectively between Graces Mews, curator Fiona Rogers, artist Justine Kurland, and collaborator and collector Sarah Miller Meigs, the exhibition reflects the gallery’s interest in photographic process and the circulation and interpretation of images.
The exhibition brings together two significant bodies Read More
Olga Ignatovich: In the Shadows of the Big Brother is a unique photobook that showcases the legacy of Olga Ignatovich, one of seven female photojournalists who covered World War Il from the Soviet Union’s perspective. The book is based on Olga Ignatovich’s recently discovered archive of frontline negatives, which had long been considered lost forever.
Olga Read More
Tate Modern will present the first major exhibition to explore Pictorialism as a global photographic movement. From the 1880s, Pictorialism transformed photography from a documentary tool into a fine art to establish a powerful artistic medium. Moving beyond traditional photographic histories centred around Europe and North America, the exhibition broadens both the geographical and chronological Read More
What does it mean to understand land not as something we own or occupy, but as something with which we share histories, relationships and responsibilities? And what might become possible when we move beyond familiar distinctions between humans and nature, bodies and landscapes?
Taking Autograph’s exhibition Our Bodies Have Been Bridges, which explores how bodies carry Read More
In 1972, the West German artist Marianne Wex began a visual survey of gendered body language. She picked up her camera and covertly photographed people in her hometown of Hamburg, observing how men and women were socialized to inhabit space differently. She also rephotographed pictures from advertisements, newspapers, magazines, film, television, and art catalogues, pasting Read More
Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of photographer Helen Levitt, bringing together her extensive body of work with works from her archive, which has only recently become accessible to the public.
More than 200 photographs spanning half a century, the documentary short film In the Street (1948), a projection of colour slides, and around 115 Read More
Pseudomorphs and Fighting Fish examine instability conceptually, materially and digitally to illuminate ecological concerns and a lack of responsibility over them by design.
In Fighting Fish, Birtles reflects on her work inspired by the Thames River London and Estuary in Kent, Essex and Suffolk, where performers and artists contemplate their choreographed roles as ‘Thames Monsters.’ In Read More
Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas joins Martin Parr Foundation for a rare talk in the UK about her photographic practice. Susan will give an overview of her career before discussing her major new photobook, NO KINGS, published by RM, 2026. Followed by questions from the floor and a book signing.
In this new work Susan has created Read More
The Singapore International Photography Festival returns in 2026 for its landmark 10th edition, In My End Is My Beginning, a major celebration of photography, memory, transformation, and new beginnings. This milestone edition commemorates 25 years of Singapore’s photographic history, while bringing together powerful visual narratives from Singapore, Southeast Asia, and around the world.
Exhibitions include: Shifting Read More
Ffotogallery’s annual Photo Book Fair is a celebration of the printed medium, and the ways in which artists and photographers communicate, challenge and advocate for image-making through print.
The next edition is taking place 12-5pm, Saturday 24th October 2026.
To register your interest for a table at this upcoming Photo Book Fair, email Chloe Davies at: chloe@ffotogallery.org
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Curated by fashion industry game changer Edward Enninful OBE, whose lived experience of the decade informs the exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion examines a defining period in which a groundswell of creativity changed the face of British culture.
As Britain began to emerge from recession, a new dawn of optimism, freedom, and rebellion was ushered Read More
The Photo Month 2026 programme includes over 35 exhibitions all across the city of London, including shows at major art institutions, independent galleries and venues, and community spaces by independent practioners. This year’s theme is Unity and Community.
Exhibitions include:
Return to Wonderland: 50 Years of Analogue Photography 1950 – 1999 at Gallery 46
Travels with my Aunt Read More
Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton have co-produced a conference in response to the festival theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams which explores geographical, psychological and metaphysical currents within photography.
A dynamic programme of papers and panels will share responses to the fragile states of personal and collective geographies, addressing anxieties and Read More
Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive brings together artists, writers, performers, researchers, archivists and queer cultural practitioners to think with, through and alongside the work and legacy of Tessa Boffin.
Across performance, photography, writing, film, pedagogy and archival practice, Boffin developed ways of making and documenting queer lives that remain urgent today. Her work opened Read More
Between Reading and Looking will explore the artist’s book as an experimental medium for ideas where material and conceptual approaches are part of narratives reflecting on history, cultural heritage, gender and language.
A public discussion will be convened by curator Welmoet Wartena to consider the role of women artists’ books in contemporary practices and institutional collections, Read More
Photo Museum Ireland is proud to present TALENTS 2026, an exhibition showcasing five of Ireland’s most exciting emerging photographic artists. Bringing together distinct and ambitious new work, TALENTS 2026 offers a compelling view of the perspectives and approaches shaping contemporary photography in Ireland today.
TALENTS 2026 features new work by:
Inés Pesado Catrufo
Laura Dunwoody
Ronan Callahan
James Mahon, working Read More
Women of Belfast is a new book celebrating the histories of Belfast women through their family photographs. Discover the personal stories behind the images and how family albums can reveal aspects of our shared history that official records often overlook.
The Women of Belfast photo album project is a digital archive that shares the histories of Read More
The exhibition explores the impact of oil on contemporary artistic practices and on our imaginaries, reshaped by modernity. Conceived as an exploration of the dangerous relationships between art and oil, it brings together works that question the way in which the oil industry has determined power dynamics between North and South on the basis of Read More
Curated by Vali Mahlouji, A Geography of Siege brings together still and moving images produced under conditions of rupture, displacement, exhaustion and repetition. The exhibition understands siege not simply as a military or political event, but as a mode of organisation that extends beyond territory into language, intimacy, architecture, and the symbolic structures through which Read More
Created in 2021 and 2022, Together-Apart captures a moment when student life was gradually returning to campus after the isolation of the pandemic. At Goldsmiths School of Design, students came together through an analogue photobooth to create a collective portrait. Because the booth could only be used in person, the photographs became records of returning Read More
Bristol Photo Festival is an international biennial of contemporary photography. Entitled Time Machine, the 2026 edition of the festival explores how we inhabit layered time. It focuses on overlooked histories, shared rituals and imagined futures. Throughout the programme photography will become a space where memory, fiction, and possibility coexist, allowing multiple timelines to unfold within Read More
BOP is back for 2026! Join MPF for a weekend of photography, artist talks, exhibitions, events, book signings, and more at Bristol’s annual photobook festival.
A lineup of photographers and photobook publishers from across the UK and Europe will be showcasing new projects across the festival weekend.
There is an action packed programme, including a special Martin Read More
“Social media is our lifeline but it’s also a loaded gun.” – Jonathan, 18
“There are so many old men on Twitter looking for feet pics.” – Ivy, 17
“Because I’m brown and I’m a bigger person, you could call me a cyberbully’s field day.” – Dominic, 17
These aren’t just quotes. They’re lived experiences of three of Read More
Foam 3h presents the first museum exhibition of photographer Keerthana Kunnath. For her debut series Not What You Saw, Kunnath has been photographing female bodybuilders in Kerala, South India. The images show women flexing their muscles against the backdrop of Kerala’s lush landscapes, combining physical strength with a softness rarely associated with the sport. Through Read More
Foam presents Hometown, Hailun Ma’s first international museum solo exhibition outside China. The exhibition introduces one of the leading voices of a new generation of Chinese image-makers, whose work moves between autonomous practice, editorial photography and fashion commissions. From long-standing collaborations with Nike and A.P.C. to commissions for publications including Vogue China, T Magazine China Read More
Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You is an epic story tracing one man’s real life and the global reverberations of his actions over the last four decades.
Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You, a major exhibition premiering a new body of work by artist Taryn Simon (b. 1975, New York). Read More
Annabel Elgar’s series Birds Fly Low reconstructs the life of K.V.M., the owner of a box of sewing items bought at an online auction, whose photographs and keepsakes offer traces of a story. Hidden beneath a mass of threads was a pamphlet with makeshift instructions for making a spy balloon, alongside notes, blurred photographs, a Read More
Centrala presents a group exhibition of film, photography, sculpture, and print by seven LGBTQI+ artists from Central and Eastern Europe now living in the United Kingdom curated by the Polish artist and curator, Zula Rabikowska.
This group exhibition brings together artworks that span six countries, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Romania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Hungary, and include documentary Read More
Launched at The Photographers’ Gallery last year, Marilene Ribeiro’s Photo-Rituals for Disappearance has been nominated as one of LensCulture’s Favourite Photobooks of the Year and also shortlisted for the EIBOOKS Awards 2025.
Photo-Rituals for Disappearance draws on personal lived experience to celebrate the ancient, magical way women deal with love and remedy. It is a limited-edition, Read More
Deana Lawson debuts selections from her series Edge Control, initiated in 2023, in which she reimagines the monitoring of individuals by beauty supply stores throughout the United States. Recontextualizing surveillance stills taped to windows and entryways, she preserves the ways in which these images warp identity and posit a mode of figuration, intervening only to Read More
Spin is Royal Scottish Academy’s monthly contemporary art discussion group. There are a limited number of tickets available for non-members to join one of Spin’s special out-of-hours exhibition tour and conversation events. This month, the group will be heading to the Royal Academy Building to discuss Catherine Opie | To Be Seen, with curator Imogen Gibbon.
Curated Read More
Ffoto Cymru is Wales’ International Festival of Photography, bringing together artists, photographers, communities and audiences across the country for a month-long celebration of contemporary photography and image-making.
Taking place from 2–31 October 2026 across 17+ locations throughout Wales, Ffoto Cymru 2026 will bring together exhibitions, events, talks, workshops and opportunities to connect with photography in new Read More
AI, algorithms, and digital technologies already govern a large part of everyday life – mostly without our awareness. Photographer and artist Carola Lampe has been exploring this development in her work for years. Her project Tell Me What To See presses reality and artificiality so close together that the line between them blurs. Tell Me Read More
An ambitious collaboration between FotoFocus and the region’s museums, galleries, universities, and alternative spaces, the Biennial is a month-long celebration of photography that unites artists, curators, and participants from around the world. Now in its eighth iteration, the 2026 Biennial encompasses 74 exhibitions at 65 Biennial Venues across Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky—the Read More
In partnership with British Journal of Photography and Nikon, PhotoIreland presents the Female in Focus exhibition at the International Centre for the Image.
The exhibition brings together the two series winners, Laetitia Vançon’s The Other Battlefields and Giya Makondo-Wills’ New Scramble, alongside 21 single-image winners responding to this year’s theme, On the Cusp. Together, the works Read More
Step into a century of American city life through photographs that capture the people who built, inhabited, and transformed urban spaces into living, breathing communities.
The exhibition explores one hundred years of American urban life through the people who lived, worked, and moved through its streets. Featuring works by 34 influential photographers from 1907 to 2012, Read More
During the pandemic, Irish photographic artist Rhiannon Adam discovered an application for the ultimate art residency: dearMoon. In 2018, Japanese billionaire and art collector Yusaku Maezawa announced a global search for eight artists to join him on a week-long lunar mission aboard SpaceX’s Starship: the first civilian mission to deep space.
The mission’s flight path would Read More
The Biennale Images Vevey celebrates its 10th edition under the theme «We are family!» an anniversary edition dedicated to reunion, kinship and celebration, featuring 50 artistic projects from 21 countries.
Since its creation in 2008, the Biennale Images Vevey has established itself as Switzerland’s foremost visual arts biennial and as an international benchmark for contemporary photography. Read More
TRACE, in partnership with Devonport Creative Quarter, is delighted to present the first-ever TRACE Small Publishers Book Fair Plymouth.
Join TRACE for a weekend celebrating independent publishing, artist-led print culture, and contemporary creative practice. Discover a diverse range of artists’ books, photobooks, chapbooks, zines, magazines, graphic novels, editions, and multiples from publishers, artists, and makers from Read More
The Photoworks Festival, formerly known as Brighton Photo Biennial, established in 2003, is a globally renowned biennial event that highlights international contemporary photography. Photoworks’ aim is to deconstruct the format of a traditional photography festival by curating a programme that encourages input and debate.
Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams, the theme for Photoworks Festival 2026, considers how Read More
The Singapore International Photography Festival returns in 2026 for its landmark 10th edition. From 16 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, SIPF 2026 presents In My End Is My Beginning, a major celebration of photography, memory, transformation, and new beginnings. This milestone edition commemorates 25 years of Singapore’s photographic history, while bringing together powerful visual Read More
Our Bodies Have Been Bridges is a major new exhibition bringing together three feminist artists from across the Americas whose work centres the body. In distinct ways, each use their body to bridge personal and collective memory, indigenous knowledge and relationships to land.
Across 65 works made over three decades, Laura Aguilar, Tarrah Krajnak and Koyoltzintli Read More
History and memory are, in different ways, a construction, like photography, and do not represent or tell what immediately appears but rather what we want to preserve, reveal, or reflect on. Monuments dedicated to women who played a public role or gained a noteworthy position in the public sphere, be they known, unknown, or forgotten, Read More
Women have played a pivotal role in shaping Japanese photography, contributing to the medium through diverse and innovative approaches. Yet the field has traditionally been male dominated, with renowned photographers, publishers, gallerists, critics and camera enthusiasts predominantly being men. This course aims to critically reassess this traditional perspective by highlighting the achievements of some of Read More
The fifth edition of PhMuseum’s International Photography Festival revolves around the pivotal concept of Archipelago – a visual and philosophical investigation freely inspired by Massimo Cacciari’s reflections on the topology of a continent and wandering within the context of the crisis of modernity.
In an era of fragmentation and fluid boundaries, the exhibitions, book presentations, workshops, Read More
Depicting Britain from the post-war to the present era with images spanning more than 80 years, Dark Tales explores the complex relationship between the Gothic and British documentary photography. The photographs in the exhibition reveal waning industrial powers, claustrophobic domestic scenes, and menacing nocturnal activities.
Dark Tales brings together a selection of renowned images alongside lesser-known Read More
Archive Frictions is a knowledge exchange project bringing together artists, researchers, museums and universities in the UK and India to explore how photographic archives are discovered, interpreted and reimagined.
At the heart of the project is a remarkable archive of photographs discovered by PhD researcher Alexandra Gow in the archives of the National Galleries Scotland. Believed Read More
This one-day event reflects on the cultural, historical and political circumstances that led to a creative output of women photographers making work in the 1990s and beyond. Their work continues to shape subsequent generations of artists. It also highlights the infrastructure and support that was available at that time.
Three artists from the Japanese Women Photographers Read More
This research seminar focuses on the alternative approaches, systems and ecologies of image making pioneered by the Sustainable Darkroom.
Grounded in wider systems thinking and critical perspectives on the environment, Hannah Fletcher will share her insight and practical experience of working in new and radical ways that place sustainability at the forefront of The Sustainable Darkroom’s Read More
Jill Furmanovsky – Rebels and Renegades at Tolbooth, Stirling is part of the Stirling Photography Festival.
Jill Furmanovsky’s first portrait assignment was in 1974, photographing a young Stevie Wonder for the Melody Maker when one of their regulars was ill. She soon began working with other music publications including Sounds, NME and Record Mirror documenting the Read More
Join Dr Tilly Scantlebury art historian and educator, National Gallery, London, as they look closely at a selection of works on display in the exhibition Catherine Opie: To Be Seen.
In this talk Scantlebury situates Opie’s photographic portraits within two important contextual modes: the traditional art historical paintings they make reference to, and the contemporary LGBTQ+ Read More
Archive Frictions is a project that brings a recently uncovered archive of photographs of women in educational settings into dialogue with contemporary artistic responses. The symposium features a lecture by Anna Fox, a session by Suryanandini Narain, and a conversation between artists Steffi Klenz and Priyadarshini Ravichandran, moderated by Mira Brunner.
At the heart of Archive Read More
Held biannually, the international art fair Foto Tallinn presents jury-selected artists and galleries showcasing the latest contemporary photographic art, offering collectors and art audiences rare access to new artwork, new ideas, and the people behind the art.
Foto Tallinn 2026 takes place 18—20 September at Kai Art Center.
To find out more please go to the direct Read More
Idemitsu Mako (b. 1940) is a pioneering artist in the fields of experimental film and video art in Japan. She began creating art after spending time in the United States in the 1960s, producing works using film and early video that explored themes such as women’s lives, family, and the relationship between media and society. Read More
Iranian artist Hannah Darabi (b. 1981) was selected as the laureate of the 2025 Prix Elysée by an international jury. In her work, she uses photographs, videos and archive materials to explore popular dance as a form of identity- based resistance rooted in the social and political history of her native country. Her series set Read More
The international photography festival Photometria 2026 hosts over 50 artists across 10 locations of historical and artistic interest throughout the city of Ioannina. Photometria Photography Center is the festival’s year-round permanent venue and hosts some of the festival’s most iconic exhibitions. The program, as every year, is packed with fresh photographic perspectives, high-calibre lectures, and Read More
Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown from Scottish Pakistani interdisciplinary artist Aqsa Arif combines moving image installation and textile photo prints, crafting a narrative of the Lakshmi/Yakshi/Nymph, oscillating between South Asian ancestral memory and western assimilation.
Drawing on resonances between South Asian and Greco-Roman mythic forms, Aqsa embodies the misnamed “Pompeii Lakshmi,” a first-century CE Indian Read More
Devonshire Collective, Photoworks, BACKLIT and Aspex announce Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive, an ambitious national touring exhibition responding to the work of artist and activist Tessa Boffin (1960–1993).
The exhibition is on show at Devonshire Collective until 5 September before travelling to Nottingham, Brighton and Portsmouth throughout 2026–27.
Tessa Boffin’s practice spanned photography, writing, performance Read More
In Autumn 2026, Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore the art, photography and fashion of the 1990s, a decade synonymous with possibility, optimism and an audacious spirit. The 90s: Art and Fashion will explore this period’s surge of creative energy, shaped by its opportunities and challenges. Featuring nearly 70 artists, photographers and Read More
This autumn, Tate Modern will present the first major exhibition to explore Pictorialism as a global photographic movement. From the 1880s, Pictorialism transformed photography from a documentary tool into a fine art to establish a powerful artistic medium. Moving beyond traditional photographic histories centred around Europe and North America, the exhibition broadens both the geographical Read More
Marlo Pascual: Making Something Out of Something, the first solo museum exhibition of Pascual’s work in 15 years, introduces viewers to an artist who developed a practice of manipulating found images, creating works that blur the line between photography and sculpture. Pascual worked in the tradition of the “Pictures” generation of artists, such as Barbara Read More
ICA, London
September 24th, 6:15 pm
Directed by Anna Fox, Sarah Jeans and Anne Parisio, Picture This is a heartwarming portrait of three groups of women in Edinburgh, Farnham and London. The women are from refugee and migrant communities and a women’s refuge, as they have all had to leave their own countries or homes because of Read More
Nominations for the Royal Photographic Society Awards are now open!
The RPS Awards recognise individuals working across: both the art and science of the still and moving image; working within the promotion of photography and within photographic education; and working in furtherance of the aims and ambitions of the Royal Photographic Society.
Nominations for the 2026 RPS Read More
Gibellina Photoroad is the first open air and site-specific festival in Italy, and one of only a few in the world. Large-format prints, outdoor exhibitions, projections and installations dialogue with the urban space of Gibellina, a town without visual or light pollution so the vision of the exhibitions is undisturbed by urban chaos.
Situated in the Read More
The British Royal Family is one of the most photographed in the world, with images capturing everything from grand state ceremonies and royal tours to deeply personal moments.
Life Through a Royal Lens, a major photography exhibition tracing the Royals’ enduring relationship with the camera, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day, is Read More
The Image Complex is an eight-session online lecture series that explores how that trust was built, how it operates, and what it means to inhabit a world where it is coming undone. Moving from the colonial archives of the 19th century to contemporary image cultures, the series traces photography’s evolving role as an instrument of Read More
PhEST – Sea Beyond the See is an international photography and art festival that takes place in Monopoli, Italy. This year’s 11th edition theme is: What If? There are exhibitions, lectures, photo walks led by artists, portfolio reviews and screenings.
Exhibiting artists include: Sara Munari, Juno Calypso, Vivian Maier, Nina Pacherová and Chloé Azzopardi, Chinky Shukla, Read More
As part of the 2026 Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation presents Come Together, a program bringing together projects by a group of artists including: Regula Tschumi, Oleñka Carrasco and La Chica and Shelby Duncan, as well as contributions from FOTOHAUS and the Foundation’s photographic library.
Through a variety of artistic approaches, these Read More
This is the online streamed version of the live event. Ticketholders will be sent a joining link before the event to either watch live or view the recording later.
World-renowned American artist Catherine Opie is in conversation with Imogen Gibbon, Head of Portraiture & Photography. Over the past 35 years, Opie has explored and positioned the portrait Read More
Since its inception in 2011, Cortona On The Move has supported contemporary documentary photography, embracing the spirit of its name, “On The Move”: a festival that celebrates curiosity, observation, and engagement with a world in transformation, as well as the evolution of the language and codes of this expressive medium.
During the festival, events and photographic Read More
This summer, Arnolfini presents Against the Tide, a new exhibition by documentary photographer Polly Braden, created in collaboration with young people growing up in some of the most deprived and often forgotten places across England.
Known for her intimate, long-term collaborations, Polly Braden’s work focuses on overlooked communities and social issues, and her distinctive style combines Read More
Running alongside the city’s leading photography festival, Festival OFF Arles, brings Arles to life with a rich, eclectic, and entirely free program open to all audiences. An invitation to discover unique perspectives, bold artistic works, and innovative forms of expression that push the boundaries of the image.
For the first time in 2026, Les Filles de Read More
ASAP | art invites you to an online conversation with Joshy Joseph, Sohini Chattopadhyay and Tathagata Bhattacharya, moderated by Shamya Dasgupta, tracing the life and work of Mahasweta Devi.
Few writers have shaped the literary, political and social imagination of South Asia as profoundly as Mahasweta Devi, whose work refused the separation of literature from lived Read More
“As everything pushes toward simplification, division and reduction, the 57th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles creates a space for complexity and attentiveness—not to artificially soften the violence of reality, but to bring out its depth, and to face a sometimes unsettling world while continuing to find beauty, connection and freedom in it. Photography has a Read More
Discover the powerful photographic portraits by American artist Catherine Opie. Curated in collaboration with the artist and touring to Edinburgh from the National Portrait Gallery in London, Catherine Opie: To Be Seen is the first major museum exhibition of her work to be shown in the UK and first ever solo exhibition in Scotland.
Discover nearly Read More
Stills presents the first major survey exhibition of internationally renowned photographer Jillian Edelstein, one of the most compelling photographic voices of the past four decades, curated by Tracy Marshall-Grant.
Born in South Africa and now based in London, Edelstein has spent more than forty years documenting people, communities and defining moments of contemporary history. Bringing together Read More
This summer, Tate Modern will stage the UK’s first major exhibition dedicated to multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) in over a decade. Active in the 1970s and 1980s, Mendieta’s ground-breaking practice challenged traditional notions of sculpture, photography and film. Using her own terms to describe her art, she is best known for her ‘earth-body’ works, Read More
And on the Shelves – Women Artists’ Books! presents a selection of women artists’ books from two private collections, exploring the artist’s book as a site of artistic research, experimentation, and authorial expression.
To accompany the exhibition, a new issue of the journal Fototxt has been published, with a special section devoted to women artists’ books.
To Read More
A photographer fooled an entire world with fabricated images, an artist invites us to interact with an AI agent trained on her own life, childhood, and heartbreak—and in another project, new, uncanny ecosystems are created as archives and algorithms mutate into new species. In The Machine’s Eye in Human Hands at Fotografiska Stockholm, eight artists Read More
The sixth workshop of Museum Dialogues seeks to explore how the accommodation of a continuously expanding photographic field—now encompassing computational, networked and AI‑generated imagery—demands not only new collecting strategies and enhanced epistemic literacy but also a fundamental rethinking of value systems and institutional frameworks. Central to these discussions are pressing questions of representational ethics, intellectual Read More
The garden is often romanticised in British culture. It is also often the site of emotional and social investment, a space of contestation and a place sanctuary, but what does the British garden look like?
Is This A Garden? shows photographs in which gardens appear only incidentally: on the edges of images, behind subjects, glimpsed through Read More
MoCP welcomes the Prix Pictet and exhibiting artist Hannah Modigh for a gallery talk and exhibition reception.
Hannah Modigh (Swedish, b. 1980) spent her childhood in India and the Swedish countryside. She was educated at the Nordic School of Photography and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Her work sits in a socially engaged and autobiographical documentary Read More
Belfast Photo Festival is the largest annual photography festival in the UK and Ireland. Spanning over 30 venues, it presents cutting-edge contemporary photography from local, national, and international artists. This years festival theme is Horizons.
‘Horizons’ invites artists and audiences to consider what lies beyond our present technological, environmental, social, economic and geopolitical boundaries. It builds Read More
(Re)Create Art Projects is pleased to announce Artificial Intelligence: Its Cultural, Political and Philosophical Potentialities, a symposium to be held online from Wednesday, June 24 until Saturday June 27, 2026.
Curated by Warren Neidich, presenters include: Ada Ackerman, Claire Fontaine, Agnieszka Kurant, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Anna Longo, Martha Schwendener and Hito Steyerl.
The presentation lectures will be Read More
As part of a pause, a rose, something on paper, a group exhibition of work by 17 artists, Melanie Manchot will be In Conversation with mountaineer Kenton Cool, moderated by curator Fatoş Üstek at The Wax Building on 24 June.
The discussion will start with Manchot’s new work recently made at the Himalayan Mount Makalu, the Read More
Is an artist born or made? Is a person’s identity set from birth, or discovered later? Martine Gutierrez addresses these questions in a large-scale solo exhibition, Wunderkind, emphasising the importance of creativity and expression – qualities that characterised her childhood and made her the internationally celebrated artist she has since become.
An interdisciplinary artist, Martine Gutierrez Read More
This landmark exhibition rewrites the story of Japanese photography through the eyes of women. Japanese Women Photographers spotlights the work of 27 groundbreaking artists, from the 1950s to today, whose perspectives have shaped how Japan sees itself, and how it is seen by the world.
Spanning identity, pop culture, fashion and everyday life, the exhibition celebrates Read More
Bringing together two distinct and influential contemporary practices, this conversation features KATAYAMA Mari and TAWADA Yuki exhibiting artists in Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now. Together they will explore themes of identity, embodiment, transformation and self-representation, each giving insight into the possibilities of image-making today.
A discussion with the artists will be moderated by curator Read More
The 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026 presents, under the title “Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other”, eleven exhibitions in eight renowned museums and exhibition houses in the city of Hamburg. Curated by the Artistic Director Mark Sealy, the festival focuses on a photographic praxis which welcomes diverse and different ways Read More
Camille Vivier at MEP is the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to French artist Camille Vivier, a prominent figure in contemporary photography. Through a selection of works where bodies, sculptural forms, and uncanny presences converse, a universe where both sensual and enigmatic unfolds, shaped by multiple references and unexpected visual echoes. Camille Vivier’s female figures fascinate Read More
No Future is an exhibition of works from Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon’s Punks series at Château d’Oiron. From 1976 to 1977, Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon documented the London punk scene revolving around the Roxy in Covent Garden and the Global Village in Charing Cross. The first prints from the series were originally presented Read More
Karen Knorr Inhabits the Castle is a retrospective of the artist’s work on show at Chateau d’Azay-le-Rideau this summer.
The exhibition features some forty photographs representative of Karen Knorr’s artistic work, drawn from the series Belgravia (1979–1981), Gentlemen (1981–1983), Country Life (1983–1985), Connoisseurs (1986– 1990), Academies (1994–2005), Fables (2003–2008), and India Song (2008–2011). It is complemented Read More
Prix Pictet Storm is currently on show at MoCP, Chicago until the end of August.
The Prix Pictet is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading photography awards. Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, it seeks to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to critical sustainability issues. To date, the award Read More
The Museum of Contemporary Photography and School of Visual Arts at Columbia College Chicago proudly present the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts & Social Issues exhibition featuring 2025-2026 fellow Lali Khalid.
Khalid’s exhibition will be on view June 25-October 3, 2026 at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery with exclusive programming during Filter Photo Festival.
In Read More
Photobooks USA 2000–25 at the International Center of Photography (ICP) is an exhibition that considers the many ways that photographers have used the photobook over the last 25 years to speak directly to the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental changes taking place throughout the United States.
Bringing together over 50 photobooks from out-of-print titles to Read More
The statement “My skin is a landscape” opens the travel journal created by French artist Véronique Caye between December 2024 and January 2026. Following in the footsteps of her father, who stayed in French Polynesia in 1966, the artist travels to these islands to explore the connections that link her to these places she has Read More
Birkbeck and MuseumsEtc warmly invite you to join them for the launch of an important new trilogy of publications by Jo Spence and Terry Dennett, featuring previously unpublished and unknown images, interviews and texts.
The event will also celebrate the 92nd anniversary of Jo Spence’ birth and raise a toast to Jo Spence and Terry Dennett’s Read More
10×10 Photobooks is very excited and pleased to announce the winners of the latest cycle of Research Grants on Photobook History. This fifth edition continues the program’s focus on research and scholarship that seeks to fill gaps and provide missing information in the history of the photobook. For this cycle, 10×10 awarded grants related to Read More
Bristol Artist’s Book Event (BABE) is a biennial showcase of artists’ books activity with 100+ artists and small presses exhibiting their works to the public for sale.
The focus for 2026 is ‘BABE Looking East’, with curators and artists from Japan showcasing bookworks and the participatory Kujibiki Drawing project in Bristol for the first time.
Alongside curators Read More
Photojournalist and documentary photographer Jillian Edelstein will talk about her photographic life at POST, Brighton on 5 July.
She started out as an assistant to a fashion photographer in the 1980s before moving into press photography. Growing up white in apartheid South Africa led Edelstein to feelings of ‘anger and guilt.’ She says: ‘Photography was a Read More
Ryedale Film and Photo Fest takes place in Malton and Norton from 20th June throughout the summer. There is a programme of exhibitions, workshops, talks and walks including: Tessa Bunny – Forest of Flowers, Carolyn Mendelsohn – Hardy and Free, Rachel Rimell – A Solitude of Being, Dawn Rodgers – Sorrow; and Jemma Bannocks – Read More
Join ERL Gallery on Wednesday 3 June for the first in a series of conversations, with art historian and curator Professor Tamar Garb who will discuss the art and life of artist Dumile Feni (1942-1991). Dumile was one of the first Black South African visual artists to live in exile in London and New York Read More
Athens Photo Festival explores the impact of photography and visual culture on society today. Taking place in June and July, the festival brings together emerging and established artists and photographers from around the world. The Main Program unfolds at Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, occupying all of the museum’s exhibition spaces, while satellite exhibitions across Read More
In celebration of their 40th exhibition SERCHIA presents ‘Konkursas’ a solo exhibition by photographer Francesca Allen. Depicting participants of Lithuania’s Konkursas Pasaulio Ilgaplaukės an annual competition for the world’s longest hair.
Francesca Allen’s Konkursas depicts participants in Lithuania’s Konkursas Pasaulio Ilgaplaukės annual competition for the world’s longest hair. Here hundreds of girls and women with thousands Read More
MPF and SERCHIA collaborate to bring you an evening with photographer Francesca Allen, who will be in conversation with writer and curator Charlotte Jansen. Francesca and Charlotte will delve into Francesca’s photographic practice, focusing on her work Konkursas. The talk will be followed by questions from the floor and a book signing.
To find out more Read More
In celebration of Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday and in association with the Marilyn Monroe estate, the National Portrait Gallery presents Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait. This major exhibition will celebrate the life and work of one of the most famous women of the 20th century through portraits. It will explore the role she played in her Read More
Join artist Åsa Johannesson as she discusses her exhibition The Queering of Photography and explores how LGBTQ+ identities have been represented throughout the history of photography.
Over the past 20 years, Åsa has developed a distinctive approach to photography that blends documentary storytelling with staged and visually striking images. Her work looks at how photography can Read More
I Am a Border is Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva’s largest solo exhibition to date The exhibition brings together 16 works created between 2014 and 2026, many of them produced specifically for this show.
I Am a Border is the culmination of more than a decade of artistic research into the border as a geographical, bodily, and Read More
REMEDY. is the UK’s first photography festival dedicated to health, wellbeing and identity.
It presents contemporary photography exploring illness and care through long-term, collaborative projects between artists and people with lived experience.
Set across Lincolnshire’s towns and coastal communities, the festival connects audiences through exhibitions, public workshops and an open symposium that brings together researchers, practitioners and Read More
Lotta Antonsson is among Sweden’s most significant contemporary photographers. She first gained widespread recognition as a student at Konstfack in the 1990s and has since achieved major international success. For more than three decades, she has examined how the female body is depicted, desired, and consumed within visual culture. Now, in I Am Everything at Read More
Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography and writing. Over the past two decades she has explored the possibilities of queer visual vocabulary within photographic portraiture – a practice that intertwines queer documentary approaches with performative formalist aesthetics.
The Queering of Photography (2015–2025), an ambitious long-term project, investigates the complex relationship between queer identity and Read More
The Bakashimika International Photography Festival is an annual photography festival which celebrates the rich photographic community in Zambia and the Southern African region. The festival provides a platform for emerging southern African photographers, who tell new and innovative African stories through photography and lens-based art.
The Festival brings together the wealth of photographic practices in Zambia Read More
POST x Kraszna Kraus Photobook Weekender is a celebration of the photobook in collaboration with the Kraszna-Krausz Photobook Awards, where they will be showcasing the 2026 long-listed titles alongside a diverse programme of photobook activities.
Highlights of the Photobook Weekender include a live Messy Truth podcast with Charlotte Flint and Gem Fletcher, reflecting on Flint’s recent Read More
Curated by Clare Hewitt and produced with GRAIN Projects, UWE Bristol, and University of Birmingham, the symposium is being shaped around the values of the forest, thinking about how these might be embodied in an event of this nature. They are bringing together different disciplines to exchange knowledge and skills, encourage intergenerational perspectives, share a Read More
The exhibition is based on the acclaimed book Women Behind the Camera: 1848–1968 by Eva Dahlman and Magnus Bremmer (Arena Publishing, 2024). It is curated by Dragana Vujanovic Östlind in collaboration with the authors and Lena Wilhelmsson.
Women Behind the Camera: 1848–1968 is a photographic biography charting the history of professional women photographers in Sweden. It Read More
As I Weave is a new body of work by artist and teacher Aasha John, bringing together woven photographic pieces that explore family histories and connections shaped between Trinidad and London. Each work begins with family photographs and recorded conversations, translated through the slow, tactile process of weaving. Threads intersect, pull and resist, binding images Read More
photo basel is Switzerland’s first and only art fair dedicated solely to photography. Now in its eleventh edition, the fair welcomes more than 40 international galleries, presenting more than 450 works by around 170 artists showcasing both contemporary and classical photographic works. In addition to the exhibited works, photo basel offers an extensive supporting Read More
Working at the forefront of developments in digital photography, Wendy McMurdo: The Digital Mirror, charts 20-years of ground-breaking work by this pioneering photographer. McMurdo has blazed a trail in the experimental use of computers and digital tools in photography from the early days of computer-based learning in schools to the growth of the internet and Read More
Gina Pane (1939–1990) is acknowledged as one of the first artists to use her body as the medium for her practice through live works or Actions she began in the late 1960s.
She became well known for this highly charged body of work, particularly her 1970s live Actions that were meticulously orchestrated to communicate viscerally and Read More
Every June, Copenhagen comes alive with photography. For 11 days the city is transformed with exhibitions, talks, performances and events that explore how images shape the way we see the world. For this year’s 17th edition the theme is: Forestillinger | Scenarios, which invites us to imagine new worlds, challenge perspectives, and explore the powerful Read More
British documentary photographer Sophie Green presents a vivid exploration of the communities, subcultures and social gatherings that shape contemporary Britain. For over a decade, Sophie has documented how rituals and traditions foster connection, belonging, and shared identity. In Tangerine Dreams, Sophie offers a layered, joyful view of who we are and how we come together.
Sophie’s Read More
A means of revisiting, reconstructing, and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed, Rememory signifies the intersection of memory and history, where recollection becomes an act of reassembling fragments of the past—whether personal, familial, or collective. The 25th edition of the Biennale of Sydney connects the delicate space between remembering and forgetting. By engaging Read More
Gem Fletcher speaks with artist Vinca Petersen about her new body of work HULALA. Featuring photographs, text and personal ephemera, the project is a multivalent exploration of home and collectivity tracing four years of change and upheaval in which Vinca reimagined her life from scratch, becoming part of the small remote community of Crofters in Read More
Gem Fletcher speaks with artist Bernice Mulenga and author Amelia Abraham about the ways in which photography intersects with pleasure, politics, and protest in Queer nightlife. The talk will explore the connections between #friendsonfilm, Bernice’s ten year project documenting the people who shape contemporary LGBTQ+ BIPOC dancefloors and Amelia’s latest book Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Read More
Calling all photographers and artists
Want to share your work and build community?
Join Hapax and The Photocopy Club for a special Peckham 24 Print and Zine Swap.
Here’s how it works. Between 11 am and 1 pm, visit HAPAX and The Photocopy Club IN TRANSIT at the back of A Bigger Book Fair at Peckham 24.
Bring along Read More
The Centre for British Photography Realisation Grants enable photographers and artists working with
photography to bring an ongoing project to completion within a year. In this expanded third cycle of their annual grants programme, five grants were awarded and all to female artists. The 2026 grants are awarded to:
Caroline Douglas for The Sublime Truths of Science Read More
One generation, countless perspectives: the exhibition presents works by more than 40 photographers from 25 countries primarilary belonging to Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2010. Their works reflect a generation growing up between digital worlds, social transformation and global crises.
Through diverse visual languages, the young artists explore themes of identity, belonging, the body and Read More
In recent decades, art museums have gradually increased their focus on gender, equality, and diversity in collection management, curation, and research. But how do art museums approach the legacy of feminism and deal with their Scandinavian self-image as gender-equal and inclusive?
Have we truly moved beyond the “masculine genius,” or are we simply replacing him with Read More
Join artist Justine Kurland for a cut and paste workshop with a difference.
Artist Justine Kurland is the author of SCUMB Manifesto (MACK books, 2022) – the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books, an initiative inspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto.
In this workshop, participants will learn about photocollage Read More
HEARD by Rene Matić is a new commission for V&A East’s New Work, exploring the theme Making East London. Matić asks: ‘Can an image be heard? How do the records we carry with us — songs, movements, basslines — define us?’
In this sculpture, Matić brings together photographs taken across east London, the wider city, Plymouth Read More
With the printed page a key site of photographic circulation, curators and researchers of photographic history often face the question of how to integrate publications into an exhibition. Coinciding with Photo London 2026, this event brings together museum professionals and specialist researchers to identify, discuss and propose solutions to these shared challenges.
The day, which will Read More
Just because something is not real this does not mean it can’t be truthful. Long before screens were ubiquitous, Wendy McMurdo navigated the border between the physical and the digital and the real and the imagined.
Join the artist and curator and writer, Susan Bright, as they explore McMurdo’s pioneering photography and film, and how her Read More
Nation Museum Cardiff’s latest exhibition Ffasiwn is a socially engaged, anti-fashion photography project shaped through long-term collaboration.
A decade ago, Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte James – the artistic duo known as Bleak Fabulous – began a decade-long community-rooted collaboration with young people across the Valleys to create co-authored images, films and publications with proudly anti-fashion ethos. Read More
Expanded photography works using still and moving image, sound and installation by Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida will be presented as two solo shows within one UK touring exhibition throughout 2026 as awardees of the fifth Jerwood/Photoworks Awards.
Both series of new works look at specific locations and share reflections on broader society. While both artists Read More
Over a decade in the 1990s, American photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood immersed herself in the lives of women incarcerated in 40 prisons across nine countries. In this time, she documented their everyday reality, producing a body of black-and-white images that reveal the realities of female imprisonment and systemic inequality.
In this talk, Atwood will reflect on Read More
Utopias Lahti is an artist-run visual arts festival organised in Lahti, Finland. The third edition of Utopias Lahti explores the relationships between photography, architecture, and urban space.
Architecture and photography seem increasingly bound by similar timespans. At the beginning of the 20th century, both photographic prints and buildings were made to last a cycle of 100–200 Read More
Photo London is the UK’s leading international fair for photography and image-based art. Each year it brings together the world’s most acclaimed photographers, galleries and curators alongside a new generation of emerging talent.
One of the highlights of this year’s Photo London is We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, a new exhibition by Read More
Sarah Pickering explores the home as a site where the mundane and the supernatural collide, and absence is made visible. In a new series of photographic prints, sound and video work, Pickering investigates the intersection of domesticity, science, and the paranormal, rooted in her formative memories of the story of the Enfield Poltergeist, and the Read More
In the age of social media, the selfie has become an accessible and immediate mode of self-representation. While the exploration of our personal image in this way may seem a relatively recent concern, artists have always been interested in what it means to portray the self.
The self-portraits in Face to Face, spanning over a hundred Read More
Carla Williams (American, b. 1965) was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a photographer, archivist, editor, and writer, the author of two histories of photography including The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis. Williams’ first monograph, Tender, was published in 2023 by TBW Read More
Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum is an exhibition of forty-five photographs made in private places across New York, New Jersey, California, and London between 1961 and 1971.
Through her singular combination of intelligence, charisma, intuition, and courage, Diane Arbus was frequently invited into homes and other private realms seldom seen by strangers. Though made in intimate settings, Read More
Soft Interruptions captures subtle, absurd disruptions – small fractures in the ordinary that reveal tension, humour, and the poetic instability of everyday life.
Rooted in conceptual photography, the works lean toward a more painterly language. Shot on film and hand-printed, the process slows the image down, allowing attention to settle on texture, light, and form.
The project Read More
The TOP Collection is a series of exhibitions drawn from the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum’s collection of approximately 39,000 photographs and moving image works, with each installment adopting a different perspective.
The theme of Don’t think. Feel. is “feeling” in the age of AI. Here, “feeling” refers not only to physically touching in a narrow sense, Read More
Bodies brings together artists whose work considers what it means to live in and with a body, how it forms, changes, endures, and sometimes resists our expectations.
Taking its framework from the nine months it takes for a human body to be made, the exhibition will unfold across the same period of time. Across nine months, Read More
Join Paloma Tendero and Abbie Griffiths for a conversation about the way that bodies can challenge and inspire artists. Paloma will discuss her inspirations and practice including the genetic disease that her work is focussed around.
The talk is part of a series of events aligned with the group exhibition Bodies at AGBI and will take Read More
Across 3 venues over 2 days, FotoFest will feature exhibitions, workshops, keynote talks from experts and a visual expo with leading brands!
At The Crossing at St Pauls, Walsall, on Saturday 9 May there will be:
3 Photographic Exhibitions
Visual Expo with leading brands
Keynote talks from nationally renowned photographers including Rachell Smith and Tina Eisen
Panel discussion with behind Read More
The Camps America Built is an ongoing project by photographer Haruka Sakaguchi, that brings together portraits, landscape photography, personal testimony and historical documents that reflect on the legacies of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The project is on view in ICP’s Incubator Space, an ongoing exhibition program launched in 2025 to highlight the Read More
Swiss photographer Ester Vonplon’s (b. 1980) artistic practice explores natural environments. Here, she is less interested in how human activity affects the landscape, in ways that are becoming increasingly evident than in places that are – apparently – still intact and pristine. Conscious of how fragile these ecosystems are, she is keen to make a Read More
(Re)Constructing History embraces the possibility for photographs to both record an instant and capture the history embedded within the present. Borrowing its title from artist Carrie Mae Weems’s featured series, Constructing History, this installation invites audiences to imagine the layers of history we encounter through a seemingly fixed image.
Across three galleries, photographs explore complicated, painful, Read More
L is for Look invites visitors of all ages on an interactive journey of discovery through the history of children’s and young adult photography books, from the early experiments of the 1930s to the present day. The exhibition brings together around one hundred international children’s photography books that stand out for their original and creative Read More
For one weekend in May, ICP welcomes over 80 publishers from around the world, bringing the best in photobook-making to the Lower East Side.
This three-day celebration of photography publishing features exclusive photographer book signings, drop-in workshops, and engaging conversations shaping the future of photobook making.
To find out more please go to the direct link.
The solo exhibition of French multimedia artist Josèfa Ntjam invites visitors on a multi-layered sensory journey. The exhibition intertwines stories of historical movements that have empowered the oppressed and opens a door toward possible futures. Bringing together biomorphic sculptures, video installations, and photomontages, the presentation is fluid and poetic – filled with hybrid forms and Read More
Join Michelle Henning and Sarah James to discuss questions about the relationship between the ways in which photography pictures the world, the materials from which it is made, and its relationship to polluting and extractive industries.
Focussing on chemical photography in the interwar period, Michelle Henning’s book “A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire” Read More
The 2026 edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography places vulnerability at its core — not as an individual weakness, but as a shared social and political condition: a common good. In a world shaped by multiple crises, the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography brings together photographic practices that do more than document reality. The works Read More
It’s 10 years since Peckham 24 started life as a pop-up on the fringes of Photo London Week. Through a labour of love involving over 200 talented artists, curators and collaborators, the festival has grown from the original 24 hour format into an annual event that’s become a fixture of the UK photography scene. To Read More
Coinciding with the centenary of her birth, this debut exhibition in Shanghai will systematically present over 200 vintage and modern prints black-and-white and color photographs, a selection of previously unseen images from her travels in Asia (including images shot in Hong Kong and Macao, China), a special screening of motion-picture footage captured with her 8mm Read More
In the series Tropism: Consequences of a Displaced Memory, Nhu Xuan Hua draws on her family’s photographic archive. The images document their early years in Belgium and France after migrating from Vietnam. Through digital manipulation, she creates images that hover between recognition and erasure. The works reflect on how a community’s past can reverberate into Read More
Language is central to how we share and understand our experiences. This conversation explores how artists draw on different forms of creative expression to amplify histories. Here, communication is a relational act shaped by access, memory and care.
Through her photographic practice, Nhu Xuan Hua’s exhibition at Autograph reflects on communication across generations. Her father, who Read More
Join Bristol based photographer Amak Mahmoodian for an artist talk on her series One Hundred and Twenty Minutes. Amak is shortlisted for the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for this work, which is currently on display at The Photographers’ Gallery in London as part of the DBPF26 exhibition.
For this project Amak has worked closely Read More
Le Sale ka Kgotso at Fotografiska Stockholm is a new scenographic installation uniquely conceived for the museum by South African artist Lebohang Kganye. Photography, sculpture, and scenography converge in large-scale spatial works that explore the concept of home as both a place of safety and a place of tension.
Visitors are invited to walk through full-scale Read More
Between 1983 and 2008, photographer Inta Ruka photographed people in her native Latvia, capturing their lives in rooms, courtyards, and streets where everyday life unfolds. She returned to the same individuals repeatedly, working slowly and allowing trust to develop over time. The resulting photographs are not merely documentary, but preserve places, relationships, and lived experience Read More
Het Zuid-Afrikahuis presents Drag Daughters, a forthcoming solo exhibition by award-winning South African social documentary photographer Michelle Sank. The exhibition offers a captivating look at Cape Town’s rich drag culture, celebrating resilience, community and self-expression. Exhibited for the very first time, the photographs capture the growing sense of visibility, empowerment and cultural transformation within South Read More
For the first time, the island of Menorca, Spain, will transform into a living stage where photography breaks free of white walls and floods into streets, convents, cafés, private homes, and open landscapes.
Raw Photo Fest is a four-day festival dedicated to narrative photography and visual storytelling. The festival brings together exhibitions, conversations, Read More
This online exhibition features five women artists from Latin America featured in NMWA’s collection: Maggie Foskett, Fanny Sanín, Elena Presser, Graciela Iturbide, and Ana Mendieta. Through photography, painting, performance, and mixed media, their works explore themes of belonging, memory, and transformation.
This online exhibition is part of the #5WomenArtists initiative, the museum’s ongoing efforts to amplify Read More
There’s More to Life is part of a photobook exchange between Wales and Brazil features self-published or published photobooks and zines that explore personal, social or cultural narratives in relation to the theme There’s More to Life.
There’s More to Life challenges dominant Western, capitalist, ableist and patriarchal ways of knowing by creating space for alternative Read More
Sara Rman’s Where It Remembers, is a series of photographs, objects and an artist’s book. The artist explores a chosen micro-location, and its constituents and building blocks. In doing so, she does not remain merely an observer documenting the existing state, but actively intervenes in the semi-urban landscape, engaging with its materials. The metamorphosis of Read More
Everything in the forest is the forest presents 14 bodies of work by artist Clare Hewitt, celebrating
the remarkable ability of trees to nurture and communicate. In doing so, it offers insight into what
we might learn from the unity, resilience and relationships found within the forest.
In 2019, Hewitt read a government report suggesting that loneliness and Read More
Martha Cooper has specialized in documenting urban culture for over forty-five years. While Cooper’s photographs of graffiti writers and breaking in New York City are central to the history of Hip Hop, Streetwise also reflects the broader scope of her practice, including a substantial body of work made in the Bronx.
Featured series include images of Read More
Crack in the Curtain, the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Huang Peishan, investigates the evolving dialogue between image and space in the digital era.
In an time where digital post-processing and artificial intelligence are deeply involved in image production, the traditional authority of photography as a “witness to reality” is undergoing profound reconfiguration. Huang Peishan’s Read More
Join POST for a celebration of nature through the lens of artists seeking to elevate its status, and highlight the importance of our connection to, and role within, the natural world – in recognition of Earth Day 2026.
The festival includes panel discussions, film screenings and artist talks. To find out more, view the schedule and Read More
Photography ethics is a topic which has gained momentum in recent years. From questions of consent, representation, and manipulation to the impacts of social media, artificial intelligence, and fake news, image-makers and image-users are facing complex challenges emerging from technological, environmental, and political change. This renewed attention to ethics has contributed to a growing polarisation Read More
Fotofestival Lenzburg is a photography festival in Switzerland that showcases contemporary local and international photographic works. Over several weeks, the festival presents international exhibitions, vernissages and encounters with artists.
For the seventh edition the theme is Happiness in its endless permutations and contradictions. Often discounted as a critical category because of its seeming superficiality, happiness appears Read More
Working at the intersection of art and fashion photography, Nhu Xuan Hua reflects on the fragility of how stories are communicated – or withheld – across generations.
Rooted in language’s inability to fully convey complex family histories, Hua reimagines archival photographs from her family’s time in Vietnam and their early years in Europe. These uncanny, dreamlike Read More
Working across photography, text, poetry and video, Amak Mahmoodian explores themes of exile, memory and belonging, with a particular focus on how displacement shapes inner lives and the collective imaginary.
In this event, Mahmoodian will discuss One Hundred and Twenty Minutes, a long-term collaborative project that draws on conversations about dreams with people living in exile. Read More
Using photography, film, performance and text, Rene Matić considers notions of intimacy, identity and belonging, foregrounding personal experience as a way of addressing broader social and political realities.
In this talk, Matić will discuss their recent work and artistic approach, reflecting on themes of race, class and queerness, and the role of tenderness, friendship and everyday Read More
The Women’s Photo Festival in Athens is a vibrant celebration of photography showcasing the diverse perspectives of female and non-binary photographers from around the globe.
This year’s edition brings together powerful exhibitions, and hands-on creative exploration.
Postcards, Images and Whispers exhibition invites viewers into intimate landscapes—both geographic and emotional—through images and texts.
Archives of Trauma exhibition confronts the Read More
Huis Marseille is showing the first solo museum exhibition of work by the Yemeni-Egyptian-American artist Yumna Al-Arashi (1988, Washington D.C.). In Body as Resistance Al-Arashi makes use of a wide variety of media – photography, book and sculpture – to oppose the oppression and stereotyping of women that she observes worldwide. She focuses on the Read More
Who do you call family? And how do you record your personal history? We all use photography to sketch a picture of our family and pass on stories to future generations. For the exhibition Families, we delve into the FOMU collection in search of family photographs.
You will discover historical photo albums and photographs by contemporary Read More
C/O Berlin presents the first major retrospective of Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942, Mexico) in Berlin, taking an in-depth look at the oeuvre of one of the leading voices in contemporary photography. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition includes iconic series along with pictures that have rarely if ever been presented, tracing the Read More
The world-class photography exhibition is back. Offering an insight into the artists working in the medium today, the Sony World Photography Awards bring the best images from the past year to the West and East Wings of Somerset House.
This curation is a unique opportunity to see all of the winning and shortlisted images under one Read More
Join Photoworks, the University of Portsmouth and Pompey Darkroom at this one-day event reflecting on the role of archives in photographic practice.
The day features keynote presentations from artists Sunil Gupta and Julian Germain (also leading workshops), talks from artists and curators including Portsmouth based Maya Brasington, Patti-Gaal Holmes, Evangelia Hagikalfa as well as Amin Yousefi Read More
This work by French photographer Chloé Azzopardi is a speculative fiction, in which the artist explores other forms of cohabitation with living beings and opens up avenues for reflection on what could be an iconography of ecological self-defence. The ‘non-technological devices’ are composite tools made from natural elements gathered and assembled to mimic the technological Read More
Thirteen artistic practices, thirteen different narratives, one shared question: how can the image function as a carrier of memory, testimony, and the processing of trauma?
Archives of Trauma is part of the Women’s Photo Festival, Athens and brings together works by women photographers from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds, who explore trauma both as a personal Read More
Fractured Landscapes and how we heal focuses on the role that nature and creativity can play in healing from trauma, particularly in the context of male violence and abuse against women and girls.
New photographic work by Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora will feature alongside works created by women from four refuges across the country, each working with a Read More
Featuring more than 200+ historical and contemporary works from the NGV Collection, MOTHER is
the most comprehensive thematic exhibition exploring motherhood ever mounted in an Australian art institution. The exhibition explores how the experiences of being and having a mother continue to fascinate artists across cultures and generations, including Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Camille Henrot, Tracey Read More
Diane Severin Nguyen is an American artist with Vietnamese roots. In her work, she explores how popular culture and politics are inextricably linked. Her work moves between music videos, performance and photography, and stimulates with images that are as seductive as they are disturbing.
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS is about finding your place in today’s Read More
Foam 3h presents You Don’t Look Sick, the first solo exhibition by artist Jasmijn Vermeeren. From a deeply personal perspective, Vermeeren sheds light on living with an invisible disability. In conversations about diversity and inclusion within society, the position of people with hidden mental and/or physical disabilities often remains underexposed. You Don’t Look Sick offers Read More
Jo Ractliffe is a contemporary South African photographer known for her quiet yet penetrating examinations of landscape, memory and the lingering aftermaths of conflict. Over four decades, her work has explored how histories—particularly those shaped by war, displacement, and apartheid—imprint themselves on the terrain. Ractliffe’s photographs resist the immediacy of the journalistic documentary image; instead, Read More
2026 is the tenth anniversary of Budapest PhotoFestival. To mark the anniversary, the festival will put special focus on strengthening its international presence, not only through exhibitions, but also with professional programmes, lectures, portfolio reviews, and workshops.
One of the highlights of this year’s festival is Women’s Eye, an exhibition of work by photographers who identify Read More
The Heart of the Matter is the first retrospective of influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems (1953) in Belgium. Through her incisive photographic works and video installations she explores themes of race, gender, power and memory.
Weems often appears in her photos as a subject, a guide and a muse. Her experiences as a Black woman Read More
Featuring some of the most iconic images from the twentieth century by the likes of Diane
Arbus, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Dorothea Lange, Olive Cotton and many more, Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the images, lives and stories of more than 70 influential artists working between 1900 to 1975. It features more than Read More
Foam presents the first museum solo exhibition of Verena Blok. The exhibition Love Shit delves into the complexities of womanhood and reproductive justice through a deeply personal yet politically charged lens.
Emerging from the artist’s dual experience of her work at a Dutch abortion clinic and her own pregnancy, the project weaves together portrait photographs, close-ups, abstract imagery, Read More
Claire Aho was a pioneering Finnish photographer who brought wit, colour and cinematic flair to postwar image-making. Working across fashion, advertising and editorial, she embraced bold palettes and modern design at a time when much photography remained monochrome. She helped shape a new visual language for Finland, presenting confident, contemporary women and transforming everyday scenes Read More
The first major UK survey of work by leading Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, Heart to Heart invites visitors
to step into her spellbinding world. Spanning the entire lower-level galleries, the exhibition brings
together seminal projects from the past three decades, alongside new commissions and historic
works reimagined for the space. Through large-scale installations made from everyday objects,
industrial materials Read More
Foam presents Atlanta Made Us Famous, the first museum solo exhibition by Foam Talent alumna Hajar Benjida. The exhibition focusses on Magic City, an influential strip club in Atlanta that serves as a cultural epicenter where hip-hop culture and entertainment converge. This exhibition, Benjida pays tribute to the women behind Atlanta’s influential hip-hop scene—a city Read More
Riding a bike, singing, or going to a soccer match. Everyday activities for most people but not for women in Iran. In the exhibition Not a Typical Persian Girl, artists Atoosa Farahmand and Oscar Hagberg highlight a highly topical subject: how the path for women towards greater freedom and greater participation in society has been Read More
A self-portrait by a woman is often much more than just an image of her face or body. It can be a powerful tool for addressing social issues, experimenting with photographic techniques or exploring her relationship with herself. In the exhibition I’ll Be Your Mirror – Women’s Self-Portraits from the Collection, the museum presents works Read More
The Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths Special Collections and Archives, Goldsmiths is hosting a book launch for Puérpera, a powerful photobook by Montevideo-born visual artist and photographer Deborah Elenter.
Since 2015, Elenter has been documenting the experiences of people giving birth — work that confronts the historical invisibility of childbirth in contemporary art, reclaiming it as a Read More
Femme ’n isms is a multi-year series of exhibitions celebrating intersectional feminist artmaking in the Allen’s collection. Inspired by a recent gift of works by Käthe Kollwitz and Lotte Jacobi, the third and final installment of Femme ’n isms features portraits of girls and women, almost entirely by women and femme-identifying artists.
Half of the works Read More
With her distinctive, radical visual language, Annegret Soltau is one of the most important representatives of the feminist avant-garde and Body Art of the 1970s and 80s. Social norms, body politics, and female identity are central themes in her work. Her artistic exploration of pregnancy, motherhood, and family in the 1970s and 80s, in which Read More
Selfie culture operates in the world of social media and follows the rules of Instagram, TikTok, and others that provide a platform for the expression of one’s own identity.
Yet the medium itself is collective.
Unwritten rules govern self-presentation. Identity functions within the collective, always presenting itself individually but against a common backdrop.
The temple of selfie culture Read More
Women photographers of the Bauhaus experimented with photographic and artistic techniques and probed the boundaries of the new medium. They observed the world around them through the lens of a camera and often captured subjects from novel, unconventional perspectives. The spectrum of their artistic production ranges from figurative portraits and architectural photography to abstract photographic Read More
This workshop opens up rarely seen works and narratives of Black and Brown experiences, offering insight into how the museum research, collects, and cares for art by Black artists across Britain, Europe, and the Global African world.
Examine post‑independence photographs, prints, posters, and drawings, learn how to navigate Explore the Collections online to carry on your Read More
Female artists have long employed collage techniques to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage is a new V&A publication which explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming Read More
Helen Sear will be in residence at HAPAX Living Room in West London sequencing images for a book, making new connections between past and present work and looking at the spaces in between.
Visitors are invited to the Living Room to meet with Helen and become ‘curator for the day’. Spread around the walls will be Read More
The shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 are Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian and Rene Matić.
This year’s shortlist features collaborative projects; long-term investigative documentary photography; installations, video and sound pieces; and experimental conceptual photography.
The shortlist explores themes of exile and memory; gender inequalities and advocacy; identity and belonging, subculture Read More
An intimate exhibition bringing together Donna Gottschalk’s tender documentation of queer life and texts by Hélène Giannecchini, in a conversation across generations about visibility, memory, remembrance and the courage to be seen.
Donna Gottschalk (b.1949, New York) grew up in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1950s, where she spent much of Read More
Internationally-acclaimed photographer Emily Andersen presents Somewhere Else Entirely, a three-screen video installation exploring the life and work of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight (b.1931). Known for her intensely visual writing on memory, domestic life and psychological experience, Fainlight has been a distinctive voice in British and American poetry for over six decades.
Andersen’s poetic film, her first Read More
Sonja Thomsen works with photography, sculpture, collage and light-based installation. With a background in both biology and studio art, and a deep interest in physics, her art practice uses light as a means to time travel—creating speculative collaborations with overlooked women photographers from the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College.
Proofs, Tangents, and Echoes is about methodology. Read More
Explore how photography can drive positive change and address today’s global challenges at Summit Photo, taking place at the Royal Geographical Society in July 2026.
Enjoy talks, exhibitions and workshops with an exceptional line-up of speakers who will share stories and insights from around the world and show how visual media is making a difference in Read More
Launched in 2015, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a biennial major commissioning opportunity open to all UK based artists using photography and within the first ten years of their career. The Awards offer the awardees the opportunity to make ambitious new work and significantly develop their practice at a pivotal moment in their career. Now in Read More
Tate Modern presents the largest ever survey exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking work of world-renowned artist Dame Tracey Emin (b.1963). Emin’s commitment to unapologetic self-expression has transformed our understanding of what art can be and continues to influence contemporary art today, using the female body to explore passion, pain and healing.
Spanning her extraordinary 40-year practice – Read More
Circles and Storytellers is the first public UK solo exhibition by French-Moroccan artist and educator Bouchra Khalili. It presents interconnected works The Circle Project (2023) and The Public Storyteller (2024), marking the conclusion of Khalili’s decade-long exploration of the overlooked history of the Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes (MTA) and its theatre groups, Al Assifa and Read More
ICP, Ward Gallery and The Road to Nowhere present: A Lens on Diaspora – a photography salon focused on image-makers from the diaspora. The event centers stories of identity, belonging, migration, home, and cultural hybridity, exploring how these experiences shape visual practice.
Presenting lens-based work from four diaspora artists, this salon reflects on communities across borders, Read More
The film premiere of Picture This is showing at UCA Farnham on 26 February 2026, 1730-1930h.
Picture This is a heartwarming portrait of three groups of women – in Edinburgh, Farnham and London. The women are from refugee and migrant communities and a women’s refuge, they have all had to leave their own countries or homes Read More
In celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2026, and building on the success of their 2025 conference-a-thon, Women of Photography invited scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 Read More
For her latest exhibition, Daignault takes a single subject, Denali, and deconstructs the Alaskan mountain across hundreds of canvases. Denali, meaning ‘The Great One’, is the highest peak in North America and a contested symbol of American exceptionalism, white supremacy, and frontier mythology. The mountain also stands as a grand reminder to the existential threat Read More
Artists and friends Anna Fox and Sunil Gupta discuss collaboration and recent publications, plus book signing.
SALON X SALON is presented by publishers Archive of Modern Conflict, Trolley Books, MÖREL and artist Antony Cairns. It is a series of art book salons and events hosted at Salon C. Stellar, 19b Beak Street, Soho, London W1F 9RP, running Read More
This exhibition of photographic portraits by American artist Catherine Opie will be the first major museum exhibition of her work to be shown in the UK. Exploring themes of social, political and individual identity, through studio portraiture, environmental studies and documentary images, Catherine Opie: To Be Seen will bring together over 80 photographs spanning 30 Read More
In this episode, Nina Berman presents her work on communities trapped amid extractive violence as a launching point for a larger discussion about trends in both journalism and photography and the importance of centering radical climate futures as a topic of inquiry.
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist, and professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School Read More
Spanning more than three decades, Dana Lixenberg — American Images brings together a committed and deeply human body of work, weaving a multilayered portrait of the United States in which celebrities and lesser-known individuals are approached with equal care and portrayed with dignity.
Born in Amsterdam, Lixenberg sees the United States through the fresh, discerning eyes Read More
The Exposure Photography Festival is a month-long celebration of photography across Alberta, Canada including artist talks, workshops and exhibition openings.
Contemporary Calgary will host the festival opening as well as three exhibitions including:
All My Sisters by Lana Collins, Exposure Emerging Photographer of the Year, 2025 – a love letter to sisterhood in all its forms: the Read More
The exhibition “Civilizations: Under One Sky” presents the inaugural session of the Ras Al Khaimah Contemporary Art Biennale. The exhibition presents civilizations as living dynamic systems, shaped by identity, memory, spirituality and imagination.
The contemplative video composition of Soti Konavishayonot, and Stefano Kagul’s performance illustrated under the midnight sun, explores the memeditics. Photographs of Hesham Ben Read More
How do women carry the weight of imposed identities, and how do they transform them into acts of defiance? What does it mean to be “exed” from history, from belonging, from one’s own body? Who were you before the world put labels on you—and tried to define you? These questions arise from EX YOU, the Read More
V4: Repository is an expansive installation that reconfigures photographic works intended for exhibition alongside the props, equipment, tests, contact strips, raw files and digital traces that led up to the final work being produced. From a mis-addressed print of a Michelin advert accidentally sent by a commercial printer to email and WhatsApp exchanges to secure Read More
Toutes les choses qu’elles portent, curated by Katharina Holderegger, brings together four artist mothers from the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe, and reflects on what women carry today – not as something abstract or belonging to the past, but as something deeply alive: intimate, social, and symbolic. The works move between universal figures such Read More
Grace Lau’s Portraits in a Chinese Studio at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, features photographs of people from Hastings and St Leonards captured in the style of Victorian studio portraits.
Lau said: “Through this project I am making an oblique comment on Imperialist visions of the ‘exotic’ Chinese and, by reversing roles, I have become the Read More
Uta Kögelsberger’s solo exhibition, Some Kind of Love: Actions and Reactions to Living on a Damaged Planet for the first time brings together four major bodies of new and existing work that explore the tensions between destruction and nurture, fragility and resilience, loss and regeneration.
Across these works, Kögelsberger interrogates humanity’s fraught relationship with nature: our Read More
The anonymous family album is explored through seven projects that reveal the artists’ own Family Stories. These photographic series – most of them staged – unveil the intimate sphere of the family beyond a purely documentary approach. The photographers explore universal themes such as motherhood, family ties, grief, and reconciliation.
Photography ceases to be a medium Read More
For its 10th edition, PhotoBrussels Festival brings together 52 exhibitions presented by contemporary art galleries, home galleries, art centres, and museums, each offering a unique perspective on the photographic medium. More than 100 artists — half of whom are Belgian — explore the richness and diversity of a visual language deeply rooted in our time, Read More
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize showcases the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography.
The competition celebrates a diverse range of images and tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of works, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and intimate moments capturing friends and Read More
The long-awaited and comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Estonian Museum of Photography’s main exhibition of the year of the body, Gendered Lens, has been released. The book bears the full title Gendered Lens. Body, Gender, and Sexuality in the History of Photography in Estonia from the Late 19th Century to the Early 2000s, clearly signalling its Read More
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 70s to the present day.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about real Read More
At this unique, hands-on slide collaging workshop, you will be provided with an archive of 35mm vintage slides and invited to construct images through cutting and reassembling. Artist and Educator Dafna Talmor will guide you through the workshop, and her own creative process encompassing photography, sculpture and spatial interventions. The slides will then be re-projected Read More
Germaine Krull (1897–1985) had a lasting influence on the history of photography with her artistic photographic works. Less well known is her extensive journalistic work, in which she reflects on her biography and her photographic practice. This exhibition presents a protagonist and chronicler of the 20th century who was never merely a conformist witness of Read More
Zofia Kulik’s solo exhibition Written in Her Own Hand traces the various stages of her artistic emancipation as she discovers her own voice as an independent female artist. The exhibition also serves as the initial platform for her first monographic book, published by Thames & Hudson, which comprehensively explores Kulik’s extraordinary body of work.
The Exhibition Read More
Glaz Festival is a biennial international photography and image festival held in Rennes and Brittany, France, focusing on contemporary, engaged artistic photography around a central theme. The 2nd edition has the theme “Acts of Love & Rebellion”.
This year’s festival features work by Sian Davey, Sylvie Meunier, Isabelle Vaillant, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar and Deepti Asthana. Events Read More
The artist couple Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931-2007/1934-2015) have written photographic history. With their joint work, which they developed from 1959 until the 2000s on the basis of an almost uninterrupted photographic activity in the industrial regions of Germany, the Benelux countries, Great Britain, France, Italy, the USA and Canada, they created a new artistically Read More
Photo Elysée offers a critical reinterpretation of the photographic archives of the Lehnert & Landrock studio, which have been part of the museum’s collection since 1985. Active in North Africa in the early 20th century, Rudolf Franz Lehnert (1878–1948) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (1878–1966) constructed and disseminated an iconography of the Orient intended for a Read More
Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, Lines of Belonging brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists weave personal stories within broader political histories to explore intergenerational memory. Others reimagine the idea of the archive to disrupt narratives of the past and imagine Read More
FOMU invited visual artist Katja Mater (NL, b. 1979) to explore the museum’s collection and creates a selection around the theme of time. Mater designs unusual frameworks for the collection items and creates spatial installations with them.
The exhibition No Longer Not Yet allows you to experience ‘time’ in a variety of ways: from solar Read More
Celebrate the innovative printmaking techniques and bold visions of 25 women printmakers from 1900 – Now. From Käthe Kollwitz to Faith Ringgold, explore the work of artists who have used print to make their own lasting impression.
To find out more about the show and learn more about the history of women printmakers please go to Read More
Photography books have long been a source of delight for Sofia Coppola. When the American filmmaker, known for sumptuously atmospheric tales of self-discovery such as The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, is in search of inspiration, she browses the photobooks on her shelves.
Coppola traces her love of photography to the fashion magazines Read More
Gathering Ground explores threatened ecologies. It reflects on what cultivating relationships can look like when they are built on principles of equity. The exhibition brings together artistic practices that defend and embrace interconnectedness in our current ecological crisis.
Ecology refers to the relationships between living beings and their environments. It encompasses the delicate web of connections Read More
The theme of the 22nd edition of Photaumnales is ‘Habitat’. ‘Habitat/home’ is much more than just residing or staying somewhere: it means investing in a space of meaning, memory and connection. Through their perspectives on architecture, heritage and buildings, the artists invited to this 22nd edition of Les Photaumnales explore what makes a Read More
Dark Tales: Britain and Ireland Through a Gothic Lens explores the complex relationship between the gothic and documentary photography in Britain and Ireland. Drawn largely from the Martin Parr Foundation collection, on display will be photographs from the post-war era to the turn of the 21st century which invoke a sense of terror and wonder Read More
This fourth Museum Dialogues workshop explores photography as a participatory medium that enables public interaction and the development of new social dynamics and relationships, extending beyond an institution’s physical space.
Contributors share diverse approaches to using photography as a tool for civic engagement and activism, as well as methods to build photographic exhibitions and archives outside Read More
Matèria is pleased to present In Plain Sight: Photography, Power and Public Space in Britain, an exhibition of photographic works, co-curated in dialogue with Christiane Monarchi. Through the intersection of language and the use of public space, the exhibition explores photography as a transformative site for action and a declaration of intent—whether political, cultural, or Read More
Jennie Baptiste: Rhythm & Roots documents the fashion, music, and youth culture of the Black British diaspora in London since the 1990s.
Commissioned as part of Somerset House’s 25th birthday programme, which champions alternative perspectives and diverse British creativity. This exhibition highlights the significance of Baptiste’s contribution to contemporary photography and British cultural history, offering a Read More
Our relationship with old family photos and photo albums is very emotional. When we browse through old photos, dear and precious memories come to mind, but sometimes also painful questions. Especially when family history contains difficult and silent issues, photographs evoke a variety of conflicting emotions. Photographs have a special power to energize our minds. Read More
SERCHIA and Martin Parr Foundation collaborate to bring you an evening with photographer Alice Poyzer and Gem Fletcher, host of The Messy Truth podcast.
This event was originated by SERCHIA to coincide with Alice’s solo exhibition, Other Joys, on display at SERCHIA gallery until 22 DEC, curated by Christine Serchia.
Alice and Gem will talk about Alice’s Read More
A pioneering voice in photography for more than four decades, Flash’s multifaceted practice has evolved through numerous series, each with a unique formal and conceptual focus. Beginning with their iconic “Cross Colour” series from the late 1980s and 1990s-which utilized inverted colors to document queer culture as part of ACT UP, in the wake of Read More
Putting Ourselves In The Picture – Part 2
December 2, 12:45 – 1:30pm
Free in person and online, registration is required
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland
Join a panel of contributors, including photographer Anna Fox, to hear about Putting Ourselves in the Picture Part 2: Engaging with Industry. As part of this UK-wide partnership Read More
The 10th edition of London Migration Film Festival takes place from 27 November – 3 December 2025 at a number of venues across London – cinemas, universities, community spaces, cafes and more.
The festival includes fiction, short and documentary films focusing on the intersection of migration with a wide range of themes – from climate emergency Read More
This is Also Motherhood is a new exhibition from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) and award-winning artist Carolyn Mendelsohn, reflecting the diverse realities of mental health before, during and after pregnancy through portrait and still life photography, intimate audio interviews, and the written word.
The exhibition is on 14th, 17th and 18th November at Phillips, Read More
Situated in the heart of Bucharest, within a renovated 1930s townhouse, EVA Foundation is a dynamic art space housing a transnational collection of 20th and 21st century art created by women.
EVA Foundation’s collection is a celebration of women artists and their indelible mark on art history. By placing emerging voices in dialogue with celebrated figures Read More
Paris Photo, leading international art fair dedicated to photography and image-based art is coming back to the Grand Palais for the 28th edition.
There are 224 exhibitors selected for its 28th edition, which will take place from 13 to 16 November 2025 at the Grand Palais. This year, the event will be bringing together 183 galleries Read More
Gallery Vriend van Bavink presents ‘Present Absence’, a solo exhibition by Celine van den Boorn.
Celine van den Boorn uses acrylics to paint away human presence in contemporary imagery. In a new body of work, Celine van den Boorn focuses on tourists and refugees, using press photographs as a starting point.
By painting away both sunbathing tourists Read More
Dörte Eißfeldt is the Prix Viviane Esders Laureate, 2025. Born in 1950 in Hamburg, Germany, Dörte Eißfeldt is a prominent figure in contemporary German photography, whose body of work explores both the formal and conceptual potentials of the photographic medium. Trained at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, she taught in various institutions before Read More
From One to Another will be a soft cover publication featuring work by the 12 artists in Feminist Photography Network’s 2023 Online Peer to Peer Residency, and three commissioned texts by Dr Charlene Heath, Alexis Kinloch, and Lodoe Laura. It will be published by OK Stamp Press in Montreal and printed at The Gas Company Read More
Blouin Division is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Angela Grauerholz for the occasion of the launch of her book The Hundred Headless Woman published by Steidl (Göttingen, Germany).
The book brings together more than 150 portraits of 100 women, some known to the artist, others not, taken by Grauerholz over a period of Read More
Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa.
Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows how photography works as a means of documentation, commemoration, and resistance. The book considers the Read More
Join Exhibition Research Lab for a conversation between Joy Gregory and Christine Eyene, followed by a restitution of multidisciplinary artist Kuamen’s ERL research residency, with Sandrine Nganga.
Taking its cue from Joy Gregory’s series The Invisible Life Force of Plants (2020) exhibited in “What the Mountain Has Seen” curated by Eyene, the conversation will introduce the Read More
Why are there so few women in the history of photography? Scholarly contributions have highlighted the obstacles that hindered women’s success in photography, as well as the ideological foundations
of photographic history that have kept them invisible within dominant narratives. Despite this, the role of women in photography remains under-researched, particularly on those practitioners active between Read More
Close Enough presents photographic works by twelve women photographers from the acclaimed Magnum Photos agency. The exhibition was shown at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2022 in conjunction with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the agency’s founding. In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of C/O Berlin, the exhibition will be presented in Read More
In the summer of 1949, Susan Weil introduced her partner Robert Rauschenberg to the process of exposing blueprint paper at her family home in Connecticut. What began as a playful experiment rooted in Weil’s childhood memories soon transformed into a striking series of large-scale works. Together they laid sheets of light-sensitive paper in the sun, Read More
Jane Bown: Play Shadow offers an intimate portrait of one of Britain’s most revered photographers, Jane Bown (1925–2014), whose quietly powerful black-and-white portraits have become iconic within the canon of 20th century photography.
The new exhibition, at Newlands House Gallery, Petworth expands beyond the familiar public image of Bown’s work as a photographer with The Observer Read More
Twenty years after opening its doors to emerging photographers with the landmark exhibition reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Photo Elysée reaffirms its commitment to supporting young talent with Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze.
This new exhibition brings together the work of 66 international artists, primarily from Generation Z – broadly defined as those born between the mid-1990s Read More
After the End of History offers a picture of working-class life today; from Rene Matic’s portrait of growing up mixed race in a white working-class community in Peterborough, to Elaine Constaintine’s documentation of the Northern Soul scene, to Kavi Pujara ode to Leicester’s Hindu community, and JA Mortram’s documentation throughout his life of marginalised people Read More
Notting Contemporary present a major new commission by the Palestinian artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme who work together across sound, image, text, installation and performance. This exhibition will feature the artists’ largest multi-media installation to date, celebrating their significant contribution to the field of research driven audio-visual art.
Abbas and Abou-Rahme excavate, activate and Read More
SEEEU 2025 is Japan’s first European Photography Festival. Featuring 14 artist groups from 12 countries, the festival brings together over 250 works in Tokyo. It introduces Europe’s diverse photographic cultures and fosters dialogue between Japan and Europe. The theme is Reframing Realities.
Reframing Realities explores the shifting viewpoints that define and redraw contemporary Europe. From vibrant Read More
PhotoMonth will celebrate Photography in major Public Spaces, from Tate Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Autograph, to established independent galleries including Four Corners, private spaces and local libraries, bookshops and unconventional buildings.
This year, PhotoMonth is exhibiting photography across all London areas with an “E” postcode—from EC1 to SE15, from Hackney to Deptford.
Highlights include: Joy Gregory’s, Catching Read More
This full colour publication published by Impressions Gallery is a poignant, and at times, moving body of work that translates Joy Gregory’s intense experience of place.
Translating Place features work created by Gregory during her three month residency in Sri Lanka in 2004 and also includes Narratives of Place an insightful and perceptive essay by Rohini Read More
The series Les Exilés follows the work Les Dépossédés carried out in the Uyghur autonomous region in China (East Turkestan) by Edith Roux which gave rise to the eponymous book in 2013. This new work brings together images of the Uyghur diaspora taken in different cities: Paris, Munich, Den Haag, Istanbul and Washington DC. Faced Read More
Patrizia Pulga’s third book on female photographers: Photographs of the present and the past in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, is a 300 page catalogue of photographers from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania who, together with those covered in the author’s previous volumes, completes the circle on the lives and work of female Read More
In 2019 artist Clare Hewitt read a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK. Simultaneously she was learning that trees communicate, nurture, and thrive in sentient communities.
For the past five years Hewitt has worked at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR FACE) within a circle of Read More
Nationhood: Memory and Hope is a new exhibition of powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. It is a love letter to all that is good in England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, and offers a wealth of insights on how we each try and shape both our identities and communities Read More
“Now in its 7th edition, Imago Lisboa reaffirms itself as a plural space for encounter and reflection around the photographic image. Firmly established within Lisbon’s cultural landscape — and with growing national and international recognition — the festival once again presents itself not only as an exhibition platform, but as an active agent in the Read More
Photobook Mania 2025 is the first edition of PhMuseum’s biennial event dedicated to photography and printed matter. Within the 500 sqm natural setting of Serra Madre, located in a beautiful area of Bologna, Photobook Mania brings together a curated selection of international, independent publishers.
Highlights include:
20+ publishers showcasing and selling their titles
Workshop with Aaron Read More
Photo Oxford, Oxford’s biennial photo festival, returns for its fifth edition in 2025. This year the theme for the festival will be Truth and we will explore what this increasingly loaded word means within the context of photography.
Questions about photography’s relationship with truth are as old as the history of Read More
Nona Faustine passed away peacefully in the early hours of Thursday, March 20, 2025.
For her many ardent admirers who encountered her brilliance as an artist, as well as those who were lucky enough to know her, Nona was a singular force of nature. She will forever be remembered for her sharp wit and infectious laughter Read More
A hands-on workshop inviting you to explore storytelling and personal history through paper weaving with photographs.
Expanding on collage’s dynamic interplay with activism and experimentation, Autograph’s exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies considers how artists have used the photographic image as a tool to reimagine or restage fragmented histories. Let by artist-educator Nilupa Yasmin, this Read More
The Traces of the Future research programme is dedicated to expanding the study and visibility of women in photography from Japan. Conceived in close dialogue with an advisory committee, the initiative explores these artists’ practices within a broader historical framework and in the context of contemporary discourse.
Texts for the programme have been commissioned from curators Read More
To celebrate Photoworks turning 30, they’ve teamed up with the University of Brighton to present a day of talks, workshops, and photobook launches exploring the art and practice of photobooks. Engage with leading artists, publishers, designers and curators on topics that span concept to production, including vision, sequencing, design, materiality and reaching audiences.
The day will Read More
Drifting Across the Peripheries of an Urban Landscape is a photography exhibition of Sarah Ainslie’s Limehouse Tilbury project at House of Annetta, 25 Princelet St, London E1 6QH.
In 2018 Sarah Ainslie started wandering along the Thames from Limehouse to Tilbury documenting the liminal peripheries of London where urban and rural life collide, a disappearing, endlessly Read More
In the 1950s the American ideal of the glamourous blonde swept into a war-torn Britain, where it was transformed into something uniquely British – Marilyn Monroe became Diana Dors.
Join author Lynda Nead for a look at the ways in which post-war British class, social aspiration and desire shaped images of women, through a discussion of Read More
This landmark photographic project by Zofia Rydet is a sweepingly comprehensive documentary portrait of Polish domestic life which spans decades, eras, regions and cultures.
From 1978, when she was 67, Zofia Rydet (1911-1997) set out to photograph the inside of every Polish household. She would approach a home unannounced, knock, and warmly introduce herself and ask Read More
The theme for the 2025 Prix Pictet prize is Storm. It invites reflections on the growing volatility of our age, forever poised on the brink of the next crisis. The 12 shortlisted photographers’s work, including finalists Marina Caneve and Laetitia Vançon, is on show a the V&A’s Photography Centre.
To find out more please go to Read More
This major group exhibition examines how photographs can be deconstructed and reassembled through the idea of collage, offering new perspectives on complex histories and contested social realities.
With deep roots in activism and artistic experimentation, photomontage has a rich legacy as a powerful tool for artists engaging with experiences of political dissent and erasure. Its possibilities Read More
By Loosing Them, I Become a Whole
Maria Kapajeva
Curated by Šelda Puķīte
3.10.2025 — 22.11.2025
Kogo Gallery
Kastani 42, Aparaaditehas,
50410 Tartu, Estonia
Opening: 3 October at 18.00
Performance by лäбипõленуд (laebipoelenud). Read more below
To this day, a woman’s body – its pain, illness and lived experience – is often treated as other, constrained by rigid gender norms and medical bias. Rather Read More
Tate Britain presents the largest retrospective of photographer Lee Miller ever staged. Spanning the full breadth of Miller’s multifaceted practice, from her participation in French surrealism to her war reportage, the exhibition reveals how her innovative and fearless approach pushed the boundaries of photography, producing some of the most iconic images of the modern era. Read More
The Aesthetica Art Prize returns to York Art Gallery from 19 September 2025 – 25 January 2026. Celebrating its 19th anniversary, the Prize supports the work and creativity of a wide range of incredible contemporary artists, all working across different art forms and attracting national and international attention and prestige.
25 of the shortlisted works, ranging Read More
“I have worked with analog photography and in darkrooms for over 20 years, and along the way more than a few mistakes, surprises, and failures have occurred. During shooting, when developing film, or when making prints in the darkroom, something can go wrong. The paper or film might be expired, the exposure might fail, the Read More
Join TPG, and Lakeside Darkroom for a Black & White Photowalk and Film Development workshop on Saturday the 4th of October.
All abilities welcome. Just bring your 35mm.
Starting from 11:00 at Lakeside Darkroom, we shall explore the Icon Thamesmead area (know from films such as Clockwork Orange & Misfits) (closest station is Abbey Wood) then head Read More
“Laura Aguilar (1959 – 2018) was a Mexican American photographer and a key part of Chicana (an American woman or girl of Mexican origin) art history. A pioneer of intersectional feminism – which aims to separate itself from white feminism by acknowledging women’s differing experiences and identities – her practice is deeply connected to her Read More
BOP – Books on Photography – is the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation held in Bristol across the second weekend of October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events, street food, coffee and beer.
The book fair is held across the Paintworks Event Space and Read More
Impressions Gallery’s annual Photobook Fair returns with book stalls to enjoy, and a programme of events including talks, book launches, and fun workshops.
The fair will be spotlighting independent, non-mainstream, grassroots and self-published photobooks and zines by photographers and artists.
Featuring Archiving to Remember, a workshop on how to care for your personal and family archives by Read More
Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey, will be the first major survey show of the artist, Joy Gregory (b.1959, UK), winner of the eighth annual Freelands Award and one of the UK’s most innovative artists working with photography today.
Spanning four decades, this landmark exhibition brings together over 250 works encompassing photography, film, installation and textiles, Read More
The International Festival of Analog Photography Lovers – called the Vintage Photo Festival – is a cyclical project born in 2015 out of the passion for traditional photography and a deep conviction that the old photographic techniques are experiencing a renaissance today.
This year’s theme, “Intertwining”, hightlights the dialogue between tradition and modernity, various artistic styles, Read More
At Coventry Biennial 2025, Leah presents a solo exhibition of new and recent works commissioned by Meadow Arts, exploring the lasting impacts of the Enclosure Acts to build a critical understanding of the systems and politics we live with today.
Monument to the Vanquished Peasant includes works created over the last three years, as well as Read More
GIRLS explores the beauty and complexity of girlhood. How has girlhood been represented? How is it remembered? And how does the idea of ‘the girl’ continue to shape visual culture and fashion?
In Western art’s canonised history, girlhood has been framed as a fleeting phase: tender, naive, in transition. As an eternal muse, this ‘young girl’ Read More
New Stories brings together the works of 25 Indian women photographers, each offering a distinct insight into wide-ranging contemporary, visual narratives. This exhibition is a testament to the evolving language of photography, by women in India, where personal expression intersects with broader social, cultural, and environmental realities. The works traverse diverse themes – ranging from Read More
Invisible Visible is an exhibition of collaborative, narrative portrait photographs by Natalia Sharomova and the Ukrainian Art Group as well as artworks by the group created during the year-long mentorship project Putting Ourselves in the Picture – Part 2. Co-curated by Natalia Sharomova and Fast Forward team Anna Fox and Corinne Whitehouse, the exhibition Read More
Award-winning photographer Sally Mann is known for her intimate black and white photos of subjects familiar but often rendered both peaceful while at the same time unsettling. A recent recipient of the Prix Pictet for her Blackwater series, her works can be seen in galleries and museums around the world, including the V&A’s current display Read More
Claudia Andujar, In the Place of the Other is the result of two years of research in the photographer’s archives. It is also the first international retrospective exhibition solely dedicated to the work photographer and activist Claudia Andujar produced in the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil, before her involvement with the Yanomami indigenous people of Read More
Featuring over 20 international artists, Virtual Beauty delves into the influence of artificial intelligence, social media, and virtual identities on self-image.
The exhibition features interactive installations and pioneering works that challenge traditional beauty standards. Highlights include ORLAN’s Omniprésence (1993), a groundbreaking performance in which the artist live-streamed her own facial aesthetic surgery to critique Western beauty Read More
MK Gallery is showing the first major UK exhibition dedicated to the work of pioneering Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (b. Santiago, 1944).
Paz Errázuriz is one of Latin America’s most important documentary photographers. Over the course of five decades, she has built a vast and uncompromising body of work that retains the capacity to chal- lenge Read More
From the Earth Comes Light at the NCMME explores the untold stories of women in twentieth-century British mining through the eyes of Guest Curator Jennifer Jasmine White.
This groundbreaking exhibition showcases artworks that highlight women’s significant roles and contributions to mining, as narrated by the women themselves. For the first time, their artistic impact on mining’s Read More
With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me is an intensive field study. Every other day for a year, Yan Wang Preston (CN/GB) went to a particular love-heart-shaped Rhododendron ponticum bush and photographed it. The ritual walks offered her time and space to experience, observe, and explore the land from different perspectives. Read More
Two photographers, Fox and Knorr set out in 2016 on a journey of friendship, adventure and collaboration stopping at motels, drugstores, cafes and Airbnb’s. Stopping, walking, getting out to meet people and explore a fractured US society in the age of Trump. Over 150 colour photographs made between 2016 and 2025 focus on small towns Read More
Recognised for her expert ability to excavate humanity at the heart of landscapes, Yan Wang Preston (b. 1976, Henan Province, China) has created numerous acclaimed series which explore the mercurial relationship between people and place. Wang Preston’s combined interest in photography and mountain climbing have had a transformative impact upon her practice; initially inspired by Read More
In 1954, photographer Berenice Abbott journeyed along the length of U.S. Route 1. From Florida motels to Maine potato farmers, Abbott memorialised communities up and down the East Coast. During this trip, she shot more than two hundred and fifty 8×10-inch photographs, and around one thousand smaller images using her Rolleiflex camera, representing her largest Read More
The international photography festival Cortona On The Move has been held since 2011 in the Tuscan town of Cortona, in the province of Arezzo. A protagonist of photographic production at the international level, the festival is a point of reference for photographers, curators, authors, critics, as well as the public.
The theme of the 15th edition Read More
Felicity Hammond explores the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning in V3: Model Collapse, the third chapter of her new four-part project Variations.
Variations is an evolving installation investigating the processes and power dynamics at play in a new era of photography. Developed across four UK venues in 2024-25, Read More
Jitka Hanzlová fled from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to Germany in 1982 and went on to study photography in Essen. Her biography forms the backdrop to her work’s central themes: exile, remembrance, and identity. This ALBERTINA exhibition presents ten of her most important series: Rokytnik (1990–1994) is devoted to the artist’s eponymous home village, while Read More
Gold is everywhere in modern life – a powerful symbol of value, beauty, greed and politics. In The Canary and The Hammer, Lisa Barnard explores the troubled history of gold, our reverence for it and its role in our endless pursuit of progress and wealth.
Photographed across four years and four continents, the project was prompted Read More
Red Herring explores the overlooked histories of women’s labour and class solidarity through the legacy of the Herring Girls—an itinerant all-female workforce central to the fishing industry between the 18th and 20th centuries. Developed during a six-month residency at Timespan in Helmsdale, the project is grounded in archival research, community collaboration and Coates’ lived experience Read More
Photojournalism Hub and Hikayetna present “I Am Your Local…”, a powerful
photography exhibition marking Refugee Week.
This timely exhibition “I Am Your Local…” showcases the work of photographers from
migrant and refugee backgrounds, offering intimate and compelling visual narratives rooted
in lived experience. Through their lenses, we are invited to see beyond stereotypes and
headlines to witness personal journeys of Read More
The Augsburg artists’ association “Die Ecke” e.V. is presenting the solo exhibition SO WHAT! in collaboration with the art collections and museums of the city of Augsburg. The survey exhibition covers 30 years of artistic work by the artist and photographer Susanne Junker. On display are her most important works from her beginnings in the Read More
Facing the Image is an exhibition by late Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (Brussels, 1950 – Paris, 2015). Curated by long-term collaborator Claire Atherton, the exhibition explores Akerman’s film installations developed in collaboration with Atherton over several years, unfolding the sequential dimension of the moving image into three-dimensional space.
Offering a non-prescriptive approach to Akerman’s work, the Read More
This show centers around Francesca Hummler’s project Our Dollhouse, created in 2021 as part of over thirteen years of ongoing photographic collaborations with her family. It began as a way to make up for the absence of baby pictures in her younger sister’s life, before her adoption from Ethiopia into the artist’s German-American family, and Read More
The Nuée Vivante exhibition takes a look at the collection through the prism of Sarah Meyohas’s Cloud of Petals. The title of the exhibition evokes the collection itself: a highly diverse entity with 800 works from 1929 to the present day, a body of work that is constantly evolving, complex and alive.
‘Nuée’ is also a Read More
By revealing rituals for “disappearance” that Ribeiro conceives and performs with other women to heal a traumatic experience of love and death she had, ‘Photo-Rituals for Disappearance’ celebrates the ancient, magical way women have to deal with love and remedy. By absorbing the aura of pagan rituals to praise the powers of care and healing Read More
A round table discussion with Clare Hewitt, Carolyn Morton, Danielle Phelps, and Emily Macaulay, led by Amak Mahmoodian on how artists and galleries can work with greater environmental care and consideration to rethink sustainable photobooks and exhibition production.
This is for everyone who shares an interest in photography, art, eco issues, sustainability and helping the environment.
The Read More
Contemporary South African artists Jo Ractliffe and Lebohang Kganye will be in conversation, exploring their work and interests in South Africa’s varied histories, at an online event hosted by the V&A on 28 May 2025.
This online event is held in association with the ‘Photography Now’ display in the V&A Photography Centre, which features recent contemporary Read More
Candida Höfer is one of the world’s most recognised German photographers. Like Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff, she is one of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s students at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art and one of the most important representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. She studied there from 1973 to 1982 and became known Read More
In this event, Marianne Hirsch and Sara Davidmann will reflect on the very different ways the family photographs they inherited have shaped their work on family and cultural memory.
What do photographs from the European Jewish world before the Holocaust tell us about Jewish life and how the legacies of its destruction have shaped subsequent generations?
How Read More
Amandine Kuhlmann presents her video installation Cash me Online at the Studio of the MEP. Created in 2023, this project, blending performance and video, explores social media as a space for representation and staging.
Amandine Kuhlmann creates a hypersexualized alter ego that exists online and in performances, adopting poses inspired by social media trends. Her project Read More
For over twenty years, the American Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti (1968, New York) has been following the lives of the Argentinian cousins Guillermina Aranciaga and Belinda Stutz. What started in 1999 as a chance encounter on a ranch near Buenos Aires, evolved into a long-term photographic project in which Sanguinetti captures the dreams, struggles, and Read More
In “Mis(s)treated: More than your Muse!”, the New Perceptions team of young curators, together with curators from the Kunsthalle, are exploring for the first time the representation of female positions in the museum. In doing so, the exhibition draws attention to feminist perspectives that are rarely included in the permanent exhibition. Works from the collection Read More
HackelBury presents the first UK solo exhibition by acclaimed artist, Joanne Leonard. Vintage Photographs and Early Collages features photographs from the 1960s and 1970s and unique early collage pieces from the 1970s and 1980s. This retrospective offers an intimate look into Leonard’s artistic evolution and her innovative approach to visual storytelling.
Known for her evocative and Read More
I’m So Happy You Are Here, a travelling exhibition and accompanying book, showcases seminal works by Japanese women photographers from the 1950s onward, underscoring their often overlooked contributions. Published by Aperture, it features 25 portfolios, an illustrated bibliography curated by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and essays from a range of writers, including Carrie Cushman Read More
Rotterdam Photo returns from May 16 to May 25, 2025, transforming the city’s cultural heart-Museumpark-into a vibrant hub for photography, dialogue, and artistic exchange. This year’s theme, Shared/Connected, invites audiences to explore the evolving nature of human connection, community, and the role of visual storytelling in a fragmented world.
In an era marked by both hyper-connectivity Read More
Offprint London returns to Tate Modern for its 10-year-anniversary edition!
From Friday 16th to Sunday 18th May 2025, the book fair will bring together independent experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of arts, architecture, design, humanities, and visual culture.
This new edition will feature a dynamic programme of talks, conversations, book launches and signings throughout Read More
Photo London brings the finest international photography to the British capital every year. The Fair presents the best historic and vintage works while also spotlighting fresh perspectives in photography. Along with a selection of the world’s leading photography dealers and galleries, Photo London’s Discovery section is dedicated to the most exciting emerging galleries and artists. Read More
The contemporary photobook is a complex medium with many forms and variations. This second iteration of Photobooks: Thinking in Practice open talk series brings together three insightful speakers who will lead us into their world of photobooks. Each session consists of a talk, exploring what the photobook can be or do, followed by a Q&A discussion.
Wed. May Read More
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the first solo Irish exhibition of Emma Spreadborough’s You Mustn’t Go Looking, an imaginative body of work that draws on the remnants of ancient tradition to address contemporary experience in Northern Ireland. Spreadborough takes inspiration from the writing of Brian Friel and his concern for the magical past Read More
In February 2024, 10×10 Photobooks awarded its 3rd cycle of Research Grants on Photobook History and was open to proposals on any topic in photobook history. We are very excited to share the results of that research in a virtual event.
The grantees and their subjects are:
Sudeshna Rana: Visualising the post-digital photobook:Studying the Influence of Global Read More
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the Irish premiere of Sharon Murphy’s new body of work Mise en Abyme, which focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during moments of stillness and silence. Drawing on her background in theatre and informed by concepts from psychoanalysis and magic realism in literature, this new work highlights Read More
Conversations at a party in Oakland in 1932 changed the history of photography. At that gathering, several now-iconic Bay Area figures — including Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams and Sonya Noskowiak — banded together to form Group f.64, a collective dedicated to “true” photography and the rejection of the prevailing style of Pictorialism, which mimicked painting. Read More
Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) was one of the 20th century’s most internationally recognised and important female photographers. Her architectural photographs and portraits from her years at the Bauhaus in Dessau, which have become icons of photographic history, still shape how that institution is perceived today. However, Moholy was not just a photographer, but also an art Read More
In 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark embarked on an arduous, self-assigned project with sociologist Dr. Karen Folger Jacobs to document the lives of women living in the high-security, all-female wing of the Oregon State Hospital in the city of Salem. The year before, Mark had photographed there on the set of the Milǒs Forman’s film Read More
Le Bal invites Catalan artist-researcher Laia Abril (Barcelona 1986) to present the latest chapter of her long-term project on The History of Misogyny: On Mass Hysteria. Following on from On Abortion in 2016 and On Rape in 2020, this chapter continues her ongoing work on the systemic control of women’s bodies across centuries.
In On Mass Read More
Anna Fox remembers: “I first met Nona Faustine when she showed me her initial photographs for the series “White Shoes” while she was studying at ICP. I was astonished by this brave, visually compelling and important work”.
Later, Fast Forward remembers the wonderful energy Nona contributed when she joined us for our research Read More
La Patinoire Royale Bach’s museum-like nave will be filled with Lebohang Kganye’s large scale image-based installations in The Work of Shadows, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
The exhibition features four major bodies of work from the artist’s recent practice. A Burden Consumed in Sips (2023) is a massive, immersive 22-panel video installation the Read More
In 2019 artist Clare Hewitt read a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK. Simultaneously she was learning that trees communicate, nurture, and thrive in sentient communities.
For the past five years Hewitt has worked at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR FACE) within a circle of Read More
10 Years of Fast Forward
The research project Fast Forward was founded ten years ago to raise the profile of women in photography. Emma Jones interviewed Fast Forward director Anna Fox about what’s changed in the decade since.
What Research is Being Funded?
What research into photography-related subjects was funded during 2024? Who is providing the funding? And Read More
We Feed The UK is a nationwide storytelling initiative, grown by The Gaia Foundation, pairing ten photographers and ten Hot Poets with ten of the UK’s most inspiring food producers.
This unprecedented alliance between arts and agroecology is disrupting the dominance of industrial farming and fishing; so far opening 53 million pairs of eyes and ears Read More
Join acclaimed Spanish photographer Cristina De Middel in a new talk to coincide with her nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.
Cristina De Middel is renowned for work that challenges the documentary value of photography and the role it plays in representing truth. In this talk, she will delve into her creative process, Read More
Since the 1990s, Eileen Perrier has used photographic portraiture to forge connections between people, acknowledging the profound value of being seen.
Often using makeshift studios, she brings her sitters together around shared experiences of kinship, interests or place. Her work has evolved into a form of social engagement that powerfully visualises individuality – encouraging us to Read More
Prix Pictet Human showcases the work of twelve outstanding photographers shortlisted for the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. Their work constitutes a powerful exploration of the various facets of the theme Human. In their own unique way, each of the shortlisted photographers explores our shared humanity and the vast spectrum of our interactions Read More
The final speaker in the Westminster Photography Forum’s ART and COMMERCE series is Laura Pannack, a London-based photographic artist (b.1985). Internationally renowned for her portraiture and social documentary work, Pannack’s projects focus on youth and time, often working with adolescents, within a process rooted in shared experience. She has won numerous awards, amongst them: The Read More
The festival is designed to inspire all photographers, not just street photographers. There will be presentations, book signings, panel discussions, seminars, walking tours. Topics will include: gaining gallery representation, publishing your book, amplifying your visual voice, building long term series and more.
To find out more, view the full schedule and sign up, please go to Read More
As it marks a decade of bringing the world’s finest photography to the British capital, Photo London 2025 returns to Somerset House from 15–18 May 2025 with an edition that both reflects on its achievements and sets a course for the future of the medium.
The fair’s exhibitor lineup features a strong mix of returning and Read More
Siân Davey will give an artist talk about her photographic practice coinciding with the 2025 MPF exhibition, The Creative Body: Photographs 2014 – 2024. In this new show Martin Parr Foundation brings together a collection of Siân’s works spanning the last decade for her first survey exhibition.
Siân will share images from her key series, including Read More
Margy Kinmonth’s feature documentary shines a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it’s life or death, what do women see that men don’t? Traditionally a male domain, war art by women has been largely Read More
For Shore|Lines, Chicago-based artist Regina Agu (b. Houston, Texas) presents a large-scale panoramic installation at the Museum of Contemporary Photography as part of an exploration of placemaking and community memory—tracing sites and legacies of historical Black North American migration through an expansive tradition of the panoramic form. This Joyce Foundation Award (2023) special project and Read More
Experience a powerful reimagining of The Family Album, exploring the beauty and depth of family connections across time while celebrating the body as a site of history and memory.
This first major solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Marcia Michael is a ‘massive love letter’ to family and celebrates the sense of belonging and joy found through Read More
Brazilian visual artist Marilene Ribeiro will talk about her recently published book Photo-Rituals for Disappearance at the Cafe Bar and Bookshop at The Photographer’s Gallery on Thursday 13th March. The talk will be followed by a Book Signing.
Photo-Rituals for Disappearance is a limited-edition, hand-made book which creates a dialogue amongst various elements and invites the Read More
Congratulations to Sophie Ristelhueber, the 2025 Hasselblad Award Laureate!
The Hasselblad Award is the world’s largest photography award, consisting of SEK 2,000,000, a gold medal, and a Hasselblad camera. The Hasselblad Foundation chose Ristelhueber as their 2025 laureate for:
A precise, consistent, and unique body of work exploring landscapes and territories – both public and private – Read More
Since its inception, the PhotoVogue Festival has championed themes that are both ethically and aesthetically significant, exploring subjects such as the female gaze, representation, masculinity, inclusivity, and the reframing of history. It has examined the pervasive influence of imagery on our understanding of the world and tackled cutting-edge issues, including the rapid evolution of artificial Read More
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond.
From 1980 to 2004, The Face played a vital role in creating contemporary culture. Musicians featured on its covers achieved global success and Read More
‘In the Space Between Words’ is an exhibition from the Rethinking Eastern Europe collective, which brings together diverse voices and perspectives to challenge and reimagine the narratives surrounding Eastern Europe.
Through a dynamic mix of media, including video, installation, photography, sculpture and performance, the exhibition will explore the complexities of identity, history, religion and geopolitical shifts Read More
After the End of History offers a picture of working-class life today; from Rene Matic’s portrait of growing up mixed race in a white working-class community in Peterborough, to Elaine Constantine‘s documentation of the Northern Soul scene.
2024, when the exhibition was first conceived, marked 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Read More
Belongers is the first UK solo show by Manchester-based Mauritian-Chagossian artist Audrey Albert. It explores how Chagossians represent themselves and reclaim their identities while navigating life in countries that have never fully felt like ‘home’. The exhibition brings together portraiture, documentary, moving image, cyanotypes, and a traditional Chagossian Kaz (hut), developed through research interviews over Read More
Uniting International Women’s Day and World Book Day, the weekend of March 6th-9th will see a multidisciplinary group exhibition, accompanied by a programme of events. Seeing a Cameraless Photography Workshop and Photobook displays, brought by Female Artists and Publishers hosted at The Photobook Cafe Gallery.
Featuring works by ten Female artists; Viviana Almas, Claire Sunho Lee, Read More
In the context of Tate’s major retrospective The 80s: Photographing Britain, French curators Camille Richert and Georgia René-Worms are invited to talk about their research on the Hackney Flashers, a collective of socialist-feminist artists active in the 1970-80’s in London.
They will be joined by Patrizia di Bello, Professor of History and Theory of Photography (Birkbeck, Read More
The annual exhibition of work by the four Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025 shortlisted artists opens on Friday 7 March.
This long-standing annual Prize, originally established in 1996, is one of the most important international awards for contemporary photographers. The Prize spotlights outstanding, innovative and thought-provoking work by artists whose exhibitions or books have made Read More
Landscape, flora and fauna have inspired photographers since the camera’s earliest days. Contemporary artists continue to experiment with the format of the book to adapt to the pressing challenges of our environment today.
Their work reflects an ongoing transformation in how humans understand and impact the natural world. These books are diverse in subject, geography and Read More
In collaboration with Ealing LIP (London Independent Photography), Act One Cinema are showing I am Martin Parr, the first of a series of events about photography. After the film there will be a talk and live Q&A by renowned British documentary photographer Anna Fox. Anna’s talk will reflect the evolution of her career across a Read More
Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography is a powerful collection that celebrates and exhibits the talents of underrepresented artists. Focusing on fine art and documentary photography, this book provides a racially diverse and culturally inclusive version of photography history and its contemporary manifestations.
Who’s documenting the evolution of photography as it is happening now from an inclusive, Read More
Join us for Healing Through Photography: Trauma & The Art Of Recovery, a unique two-day conference that delves into the transformative power of photography as a medium for healing, growth, and connection. Whether you are a photographer, mental health professional, educator, or creative enthusiast, this event will inspire and equip you with practical tools and Read More
How can creative practices disrupt power structures within the archive? Autograph and Parse Journal present a new symposium examining strategies and methodologies to rethink, reimagine and reshape the histories embedded in archival collections.
The symposium will examine how archival materials can be reactivated through diverse perspectives and disciplines, challenging dominant narratives. With a focus on decolonial Read More
For the last fifteen years or so, Aurore Bagarry has been photographing the sculptural formations of the glaciers of the Alps, the rocky coastline of the English Channel and, more recently, the Atlantic coast, from the Gironde and Brittany to Martinique and Guadeloupe.
The repertoire of forms produced in this way harkens back to a practice Read More
In late 2024, six women who are in the process of seeking, or have been granted, asylum in the UK came together at Autograph to create artwork about their experiences – and hopes for the future.
They received collaborative mentoring with essential support from Women for Refugee Women. Using photography and film to document their lives, Read More
One universe. Thirteen artists. Welcome to Space – A Visual Journey, this winter’s major exhibition at Fotografiska. A grandiose art journey through space with themes ranging from science and technology to astrology and philosophy.
Throughout history, humans have looked up to the stars and tried to understand what is out there. Space represents how we can Read More
The latest Prix Pictet book Collage features new and recent work by contemporary female photographers nominated and shortlisted for the prize since it first began in 2008.
Showcasing some of the finest photographers creating powerful imagery around the world today, Collage features images by 64 women photographers on the theme of sustainability.
Together the images address the Read More
Accompanying Lygia Clark: The I and the You and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation, are a selection of nine films.
This film programme explores the journeys of two pioneering women artists from different times, places and socio-political contexts, who share a commitment to the participation of audiences in artworks. Through the gaze of different curators, artists Read More
Doyle Wham is delighted to present Through Motion, a solo presentation of Heather Agyepong.
Heather Agyepong is a British Ghanaian visual artist, performer/actor and maker who lives and works in London. Her art practice is concerned with mental health and wellbeing, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive. Agyepong uses both lens-based practices Read More
Part of Chennai Photo Biennale 2024, It’s time. To see. To be seen. is a group show by women artists responding to the world through photographic practices. ‘Women-artists’ are not a genre and this show is not a chronological amassing of work by women in photography and its spectrums. Women have been responding to the Read More
Foam 3h presents Terror of Beauty, the first solo museum exhibition by artist Sarah Amrani. With her work, Amrani explores the complex relationship between technology, culture and beauty standards. The multimedial exhibition invites visitors to think critically about how our perception of beauty and identity is shaped in the digital age.
Sarah Amrani explores the effect Read More
Anna Fox will be in conversation with Samar Hazboun (online), Bhumika Saraswati and Natalia Sharamova (online) talking about Photography and Advocacy – The Human Condition at the Chennai Photo Biennale, 2025. The panel discussion will take place at Forum Art Gallery on 17 January 2025 and is also available online.
Anna Fox is one of the Read More
ADAPTATION, the first major survey of works by contemporary American photographer Anastasia Samoylova. Curated by Taous R. Dahmani, this exhibition presents works from five of Samoylova’s most significant series: ‘Landscape Sublime’, ‘Image Cities’, ‘FloodZone’, ‘Floridas’, and ‘Breakfasts’. The exhibition features compelling video work previously unseen in the UK.
In ADAPTATION, Samoylova directs her frank and curious Read More
Matèria are hosting a special finissage conversation at the gallery between artist Maïmouna Guerresi and art historian/curator Mistura Allison. A short text, written by Allison about La Création du Monde, Guerresi’s second solo exhibition at Matèria will also be available to the public in attendance and soon after on the gallery’s website.
To find out more Read More
Women Alternative Photography Group and Folk House Darkroom are excited to be collaborating for our upcoming The Art of Experimentation Online Conference. This two day online conference brings together presentations from contemporary artists and researchers who explore the possibilities of alternative photographic processes. Presenters will consider how contemporary practitioners are using innovative and Read More
In The Creative Body: Photographs 2014 – 2024, Martin Parr Foundation brings together a collection of works from the last decade by photographer Siân Davey, in her first survey exhibition.
This show presents photography from Siân’s three major series, Looking For Alice (2013-2018), Martha (2015 – 2016) and The Garden (2021 – 2023), alongside lesser known Read More
Photography, invented in the 1820s, has revolutionised, for better or for worse, how we record and remember things. Five billion photos are taken everyday and more than 14 billion images are shared daily on social media. Photography has become a spontaneous act and a universal language now. In this age of excess image production, the Read More
In a time marked by environmental, economic, and social crisis, Glimmer is a new body of work by lens-based artist Jess Holdengarde that confronts the paralysis that often is associated with disillusionment.
Holdengarde, through layered approaches, uses the camera, body, light, silver, and sound to explore how the intimacy of a practice can spark transition. With Read More
In celebration of National Tree Week (23 Nov – 8 Dec) a community of photographers will present their work honouring and celebrating the life of trees at Hackney Gallery, East London in an exhibition titled ‘Intersectional Grammar: Trees’.
At the heart of the exhibition is a celebration of trees through the ancient craft of storytelling. The Read More
Whether generated by sunlight passing through a camera lens, triggered by the burst of a flash bulb, or forged by electricity coursing through a microchip, all photographs need some form of energy to exist.
This display shines a light on the diverse kinds of energy in photography, from the hidden processes intrinsic to creating a picture, Read More
Featuring work by Walker Evans in dialogue with contemporary photographs by Anastasia Samoylova, the exhibition will feature over 70 objects exploring how the two artists sought to understand the state’s complexity and contradictions.
A popular tourist destination since the early 20th century, Florida is a place where fantasy and reality collide. Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Read More
Ingrid Pollard, one of Britain’s leading contemporary photographers and artists, is the recipient of the 2024 Hasselblad Award – the world’s largest photography prize. Her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia showcases her work from the 1980s to the present, spanning four decades. At the core of Pollard’s oeuvre is her interest in photography, both its Read More
Since the early 1990s, the Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra has produced an impressive body of photographic- and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. By isolating people from their everyday context and searching for glimmers of individuality while focusing on subtle details, the posture and gaze of the subject, she encourages Read More
Stills Centre for Photography is pleased to announce that its new Director will be Vivienne Gamble who will begin this role in January 2025.
Vivienne Gamble is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Peckham 24 festival of contemporary photography. Established in 2016, Peckham 24 takes place annually during Photo London Week. With a Read More
Lensing the Global (South Asia +) is a Panel Discussion organised in collaboration with Autograph, responding to and expanding beyond the themes and contexts of The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998.
This panel draws upon critical strains of lens-based practices from South Asia, South East Asia, and their global intonations and reverberations. Bringing together a Read More
The black body is at the heart of French artist Mame-Diarra Niang’s new series. She doesn’t want to define it, or tell its story. On the contrary, she wants to untie it from the ways it has been represented by centuries of Western narratives. She therefore seeks to make it abstract, through what she calls Read More
For a long time, it was thought that only people could create works of art. But Almudena Romero shows us that plants are intelligent and creative too! They can create shapes and colours to adapt to their environment. For example, some plants create flowers with colours and patterns to attract insects, which then help them Read More
70:15:40: Addressing Gender Imbalance in Photography and Videography at The Handbag Factory is an inspiring exhibition showcasing new work by finalists of a national award aimed at highlighting the gender imbalance in the photography and videography industries.
From a unique focus on the Black motherhood experience to themes of equity and solidarity shown through a women/non-binary Read More
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize returns for its 17th year, showcasing the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography.
The competition celebrates a diverse range of images and tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of works, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and Read More
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Sydney-based Malaysian artist
Simryn GILL (b. 1959). The exhibition, across photography, works on paper and sculpture,
features works from the last six years, and is curated by Catherine de Zegher, who also curated
Gill’s presentation for the Australian Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Shelter highlights the
artist’s pivotal role Read More
Spirit of Lagos unearths the story of Abi Morocco Photos, one of the most vibrant photographic studios operating in Lagos. The studio’s remarkable black-and-white portraits celebrate the rich style and joyous spirit of a generation of Lagosians during a transformative period in Nigeria’s history.
Operated by husband-and-wife duo John Abe and Funmilayo Abe the studio thrived Read More
This event series, led by UCA Surrey Galleries in collaboration with the Doctoral College, offers a dynamic exploration of the human experience.
Through workshops, exhibitions, and creative events, participants engage in storytelling, movement exploration, music performances, and collaborative projects that address real-world issues through creativity, creative education, and practice-based research.
Focusing on critical dialogue and creative expression, this series challenges Read More
Belfast Exposed Gallery, in collaboration with the Centre for British Photography, is thrilled to announce Modern Muse, an exhibition by acclaimed photographic artist Arpita Shah. This compelling body of work, which has garnered acclaim across the UK, will be exhibited in Ireland for the first time, offering audiences a powerful and intimate exploration of South Read More
In development since 2020, the exhibition Science/Fiction — A Non-History of Plants retraces the visual history of plants through art, technology, and science from the nineteenth century to the present day. Bringing together over 40 artists from different periods and nationalities, this exhibition juxtaposes historic photographic works such as Anna Atkins’ cyanotypes, Karl Blossfeldt’s inventory Read More
I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society.
Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and Read More
Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place?, an exhibition spotlighting the ground-breaking phototherapy work of the celebrated British photographer and feminist Jo Spence (1934–1992), provides an intimate and powerful look at Spence’s exploration of the roles and experiences of women within society.
Jo Spence was not just a photographer but a cultural critic and activist who used her Read More
Mimosa House presents the fourth chapter of transfeminisms, a major survey touring exhibition, that brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing and ongoing issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe. The fourth chapter will feature works by Sonia Boyce, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Lubaina Himid, Gulnur Mukazhanova, SaVĀge K’lub and Buhlebezwe Read More
This autumn, Somerset House explores the untold stories of Black British fashion in a major new exhibition, The Missing Thread.
Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, The Missing Thread, curated by the Black Orientated Legacy Development Agency (BOLD), charts the shifting landscape of Black British culture and the unique contribution it has made to Read More
A Story named Joy marks the first gathering of NEST, a transnational network of non-profit organizations, collectives, and independent structures working at the intersection of visual arts, activisms, and gender studies, created at the initiative of AWARE. It will bring these non-institutional voices from diverse cultural contexts to enter into dialogue with Parisian audiences, focusing Read More
Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage highlights the work of truly innovative American fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013) who transformed fashion imagery into avant-garde art.
Deborah Turbeville’s signature dreamlike and melancholic style became recognisable with her earliest works in the 1970s: enigmatic female figures, cloudy skies, wintry nature and abandoned, decaying surroundings. She deliberately distanced herself from the typical Read More
Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape is a major new contemporary art exhibition exploring Dartmoor’s evocative landscape through photography, film and Land Art. Showing artwork from 1969 to 2024, this exhibition demonstrates Dartmoor’s attraction to artists who, through photography, explore current issues including the interconnected ecological and climate crises and access rights.
Dartmoor includes beautiful images of bathers Read More
The Photographers’ Gallery presents a solo show of work by Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022).
Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1935, Battaglia began her photographic career in the early 1970s, when she was in her forties. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily during the 1970s, 1980s Read More
Feminist Perspectives in Photography, led by curator Eva Eicker and coinciding with the exhibition Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily, charts developments in photography history as informed by feminism. In a medium that has often been dominated by male narratives, each week we will look at how feminist theory, intersectionality and social resistance Read More
BOP – Books on Photography – is the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society, held in Bristol across the second weekend of October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events, street food, coffee and beer.
BOP 2024 will coincide with the Read More
The world never stands still, it is always in the process of unfolding and becoming otherwise. Any given moment can be understood as a momentary congregation; of bodies, matters, histories, dreams and ideas. For the second edition we will focus on the theme of movement, drawing attention to global currents and flows, as well as Read More
The biennial, open-platform photography festival returns in October with six weeks of exhibitions and events in and beyond Brighton & Hove, Newhaven and for the first time, Portsmouth.
Photo Fringe offers a vibrant mix of photographers presenting their own work, plus photography selected from open calls, in galleries, cafés, pop-up venues, outdoor installations and other extraordinary Read More
CRUX Photography Network is pleased to announce a hybrid event – online and in person at Arts University Bournemouth – on October 11th, 2024 from 13:00 to 16:00 GMT. Continuing with our project theme, The Landscape of Inequality, our remarkable group of speakers will be showing projects that employ participatory methodologies to explore the Read More
Jeu de Paume showcases the vibrant, singular work of influential American photographer Tina Barney, who is best known for exploring intergenerational familial rituals and the subtle nuances of human connection.
Spanning over 40 years of the artist’s career, the exhibition marks the artist’s first European retrospective.
Born in 1945, Tina Barney began taking photographs of her relatives Read More
Reimagined Landscapes brings together the works of Gohar Dashti & Hamed Noori, Cyrus Mahboubian, and Qiu Yangzi to explore themes of cultural identity, home and displacement.
These artists treat the landscape not merely as a backdrop but as a central character in their exploration of memory, displacement and the human condition. Their reconstructed and often surreal Read More
This autumn, Tate Britain will present The 80s: Photographing Britain, a landmark survey which will consider the decade as a pivotal moment for the medium of photography. Bringing together nearly 350 images and archive materials from the period, the exhibition will explore how photographers used the camera to respond to the seismic social, political, and Read More
Photography – A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category ‘Queer’. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities.
How has photography advanced fights against LGBTQ+ Read More
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.
To view the images and see the full article go to the direct link.
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.
To find out more please go to the direct link.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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 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 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: 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
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 collaboration with the Bangalore International Centre is hosting a special edition of its lecture series called ‘Women in Art & Culture’ by four Indian women prominent in their respective fields.
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Pushpamala N.: Chronicles of the Phantom Lady: Humour, wit Read More
Velvet Black – Notes is Fleur Olby’s first solo show combining her series ‘Velvet Black’ and ‘Notes’.
Velvet Black is a present-day ode to Victorian plant shows, with black velvet backdrops and their cultivation of indoor-outdoor window theatres. The series started as a photographic notebook of planting a garden, and is resonant of a flower press, Read More
Amak Mahmoodian’s Zanjir (Translation: “chain”) presents a body of photographs that cross great distances – reaching through history to bring the earliest images of Iranian photography into the present, across oceans to invite Mahmoodian’s family and friends; and across the border between life and death.
In 2004, Mahmoodian visited the Golestan museum and undertook an archival Read More
Hasselblad Heroines shines a light on talented female photographers from around the globe as they make their mark in the photographic industry. Through these spotlights, each Heroine shares their experiences in their career, challenges they’ve encountered in a typically male-dominated industry and inspiration in their art through short video interviews.
By putting a spotlight on these Read More
Free Female in Focus E-Guide
Female is Focus is the global award celebrating female-identifying photographic talent
From 1854 Media, the Female in Focus e-guide celebrates exceptional work of women photographers around the world whilst drawing on a multitude of leading industry voices to explore how, together, we can push for gender equality in the photography industry.
The Female Read More
Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender
Sally Stein
published by MACK
“I contend that in close comparison with Marian icons, the reason why this photograph continues to command attention is that it is not so simple or familiar a variant of the holy family imagery as it first appears.”
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern Read More
In recognition of International Women’s Day, Richard Saltoun will be screening Helen Chadwick’s Domestic Sanitation, a performance which took place in Brighton in 1976.
In The Latex Glamour Rodeo, five women in grotesque rubber costumes act out bizarre beauty rituals in a kind of beauty salon. The performance is without sound, but a radio show can Read More
Since the beginning of her career in the 1970s, Annegret SOLTAU has championed an experimental approach to art, challenging the conventional notions of representation through performance, photography and collage. While the focus of Soltau’s work never ventures far from the female body and its bodily processes, often incorporating images of herself, at the heart of Read More
Talk: Doris Derby
March 6, 2020, 18.30
Join the American civil rights photographer for this special talk
Known for her work during the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, this is a unique opportunity to hear from activist and documentary photographer Dr Doris Derby. Derby is widely recognised for her explorations of Black history and culture, producing thousands of photographs documenting Read More
Recycling, borrowing, stealing, shamelessly ripping off… artists scavenge. They remix. They find new pathways, links and meanings. They plunder from past or present to create debate. In ‘steal this essay’ Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson poses the question: ‘What imagery is so pervasive that claims of ownership seem facile? And are artists in their ability and need Read More
Our Plastic Ocean, by international award-winning photographer Mandy Barker, addresses the current global crisis of marine plastic pollution. Barker collects debris from shorelines across the world and transforms them into powerful and captivating images. The exhibition, which is traveling from Impressions Gallery where it was conceived, is the first major touring retrospective of her work.
At Read More
Quinn is an installation by photographer, artist and writer Lottie Davies.
It is the fictional story of a young man, William Henry Quinn, who walks from the south west of England to the far north of Scotland in post-Second World War Britain. Although fictional, the work responds to the real-world experiences of young men and women Read More
The role of photography and film has often been relegated to that of illustration, yet its uses – as a visual record, in scientific research, education and travelogues – have been varied and at times ingenious.
From experimentation with technologies in extreme environments (telephoto lenses, glass plate negatives, flashlight photography, chrono-photography, photomicrography, cinematography) to the practices Read More
This Women’s History Month, Four Corners celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
During the 1930s, more than 80,000 refugees came to Britain from Nazi-dominated Europe. Amongst those escaping anti-Semitic and political persecution were a surprising number of women photographers. Often established practitioners, these women brought fresh, modernist Read More
Established in 1981 and situated in its iconic building in Brixton’s Windrush Square since 2014, Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is the only national repository of Black history and culture in the UK.
The unparalleled and growing archive collection offers insight into the history of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain. BCA recognises the importance Read More
GRAIN Projects, New Art West Midlands, Aarhus Center for Visual Art (AaBKC) and Galleri Image are delighted to announce that Laura Dicken has been selected as the successful recipient of the International Bursary 2020. Laura will now undertake a period of research in Aarhus, Denmark, in March 2020.
Laura’s research proposal was selected by representatives from Read More
TJ Boulting is delighted to present their first solo show with American artist Haley Morris-Cafiero. Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, part spectator, for this latest series ‘The Bully Pulpit’ Haley played cyber bullies at their own game. After being trolled about her appearance when her previous project ‘The Watchers’ went viral, she went about Read More
Suryanandini Narain (Assistant Professor in Visual Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University) wrote a review of Fast Forward: How Do Women Work? conference (Tate Modern, 2019) for Critical Collective journal (India):
“The title of a recent conference at the Tate Modern, London (30th November – 2nd December, 2019), organised by Read More
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM) is delighted to announce that on Wednesday, February 12, 19:00 we will host a public presentation of the projects that have been produced by 7 South Caucasian women photographers – grantees of the program TPMM Multimedia Production Lab Grant 2019.
Among 7 photographers Read More
SERIES AND BOOK LAUNCH: Photography, Place, Environment (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing) presents Coal Cultures by Derrick Price, and Landscapes Between Then and Now by Nicola Brandt.
Photography, Place, Environment publishes original scholarship and critical thinking exploring ways in which photography contributes to, or challenges, narratives relating to geography, environment, landscape and place, historically and now. By critiquing Read More
This paper explores the archival afterlives of photographs of the facially injured and disfigured ex-servicemen of the Great War, focusing on the prolific records of reconstructive surgery and aftercare in military hospitals. From the scientific quest to record and understand these wounds and their treatment, to soldiers’ post-war reintegration, the photographs have struggled to shed Read More
As a response to the current investment in large hydroelectric dams as a basis for Brazil’s ‘sustainable’ economic growth, Costs addresses the impacts these endeavours have had on both the environment and people. Director Marilene Ribeiro surveys three hydro schemes that have happened at different times in Brazil (the past – the Sobradinho dam; the Read More
In association with the exhibition Too Rich a Soil at The New Art Gallery Walsall, the three exhibiting artists; Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid and Nilupa Yasmin will be in discussion with academic and writer Caroline Molloy.
The artists will speak about the shared themes of identity, culture and heritage in their practice. During this event the Read More
By, Alissa Guzman January 27, 2020
This season of the Recording Artists podcast, hosted by Helen Molesworth, explores what it has meant to be a woman and artist through the lives of six iconic artists.
As the women’s march headed into its forth year this month and recent exhibitions like Abortion Is Normal seize the zeitgeist of Read More
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is pleased to announce the largest exhibition to date dedicated to the work of Claudia Andujar. For over five decades, she has devoted her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous group.
Based on four years of research in the photographer’s archive, this new exhibition Read More
A week-long programme featuring panel discussions and a film screening, as well as workshops and courses. From patrons to historians, the Royal Academy of Art celebrate the influential women working to support art and artists.
In this programme of events to mark International Women’s Day 2020, the RA examine the impact women have had on the Read More
A conference that addresses the under-representation and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC and nonbinary artists.
The conference The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts in the Netherlands aims to raise awareness, gather available data and mobilise existing networks and collective knowledge in order to establish a gender equality roadmap in the arts in the Netherlands. With Read More
In Practice: Total Disbelief considers artistic engagements with dimensions of doubt as they contribute to the formation of social life. Across media, the works in the exhibition engage formal tools that uphold belief and produce what we consider to be true – narrative and cinematic tropes, photographic technologies, empiricism, and others – and use them Read More
The Arts Council England are kicking 2020 off with their new podcast series. The Art of Leadership hosts guests from across the sector and beyond, sharing ideas around good leadership and governance.
Episode 1 discusses what makes a good board? What makes a bad one? Where’s the line between the executive and the trustees? Join host Read More
The Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
London WC1N 1AZ
January 24 – April 26, 2020
Portraying Pregnancy is a major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years.
Until the twentieth century, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant. Despite this, pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. This exhibition brings together images Read More
Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France (CPIF)
107, avenue de la République FR – 77340 Pontault-Combault
January 19 – April 5, 2020
Réversible is the third part of Constance Nouvel’s project. The first part, Atlante, was unveiled at In Situ – fabienne leclerc gallery in Paris and this was followed by Solstice, which was presented at the Le Point du Read More
RAKE is a new visual research collective that uses open source data to investigate and visualise a variety of unseen and obscured subjects across society, business and politics, including human rights violations, government censorship, hidden histories, corruption, surveillance and bureaucratic violence. RAKE pushes the boundaries of traditional photojournalism and reportage, using evolving investigation techniques to Read More
Bishkek’s Feminnale kicked off a fight against the patriarchy. But with government censorship, the struggle is proving even more difficult than artists predicted.
“No one has ever censored her out before,” Kazakh artist Zoya Falkova says. “It’s just never happened.”
The “she” in question is Evermust, a sculpture composed of a black-and-red punching bag shaped like a Read More
Artpil is proud to announce for its 11th edition, the 2020 selections for 30 Under 30 Women Photographers.
Founded in 2010, 30 Under 30 Women Photographers has helped emerging, mid-career, as well as some accomplished women photographers to gain further exposure and participate in the collective among peers. With styles ranging from art photography to documentary, Read More
