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“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
First Women comprises a unique collection of 100 portraits capturing women in the UK who were “first” in their field of achievement. The portraits by photographer Anita Corbin provide inspiration and insight for a new generation of women seeking an understanding of their own roles in a rapidly changing world in which equality is still Read More
December 9, 2019
Last month Baltimore Museum of Art announced that in 2020 it would only collect works of art by women, because in the last decade just 2% of global art auction spending was on work by women? At 26 major American museums just 11% of all acquisitions and 14% of exhibitions were by female Read More
When: 13 December 2019, 10:00 — 17:00
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, Keynes Library
A collaboration between Birkbeck Research Centres: the Centre for History and Theory of Photography; the Centre for Architecture, Space & Society and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
This workshop is focused on photography as a tool for representing places where routine or
traumatic violence Read More
When: 11 December 2019, 18:00 — 19:30
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, 106
In the 19th and 20th centuries, countless numbers of photographs were offered and displayed on the walls of churches, forming collections that represent local culture and devotion, as well as the history of photography. The research aims to develop our understanding of the cultural Read More
There are over one-hundred high quality colour photocopies, home computer printouts, and digital files of British photographer Jo Spence’s work held in the collection at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) in Toronto, Canada – the largest repository of her memorial archive. Spence (British, 1934–1992) was a radical London-based activist, socialist-feminist photographer, writer, educator and collaborator Read More
A professional development programme in Manchester for artists, makers and photographers.
Collaboratively developed and delivered by a-n The Artists Information Company, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Craft & Design Centre and Redeye, the Photography Network. Four full-day sessions will be led by arts sector experts, focusing on core business skills: writing, pitching, project management and promotion. In all Read More
First in a series of events aiming to create an informal space for conversation and networking, and an opportunity to learn about national and private collections with some new skills along the way.
This event includes a tour of the photo collection stores at National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, followed by a talk by Read More
In the early history of photography in South Asia it was often the case that the subjects of photographs had their identities thrust upon them rather than being complicit in the act of taking of the photograph and those who were holding the camera were guided by either purposefully political agendas or subconscious bias.
This exhibition Read More
Seen Fifteen is delighted to announce a new exhibition of photography and painting by artists
Dragana Jurišic´ and Catherine McWilliams. REBEL GODDESS brings together works by both artists
that draw inspiration from legends of ancient goddesses as a conduit for comment on contemporary
issues. In Greek mythology, Gaia was the ‘mother’ of Earth who gave birth to the Read More
“Step into one of the nation’s top art museums, and most of the works you’ll see were made by men.
The Baltimore Museum of Art has decided to make a bold step to correct that imbalance: next year, the museum will only purchase works made by female-identifying artists.
“This how you raise awareness and shift the identity Read More
The Digital Hub Immersive Technology Week takes place from 14th to 20th November and will allow clients of The Digital Hub and the wider community the opportunity to learn about and get hands on experience of the latest in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
There will be a number of workshops and drop-in sessions throughout the Read More
Which tools for the visibility of woman photographer on an European scale ?
PARIS PHOTO 2019
November 9th
Discussion between Anna Fox (Photographer, Professor of Photography at UCA / Fast Forward: Women in Photography), Delphine Bedel (Artist, Éditor, Founder of Meta/Books, Amsterdam) and Anna-Alix Koffi (Founder of the magazine Woman paper and Something we africans got).
Willing to work for Read More
KATALOG is 30 years in print.
Celebrating we include a supplement issue to all subscribers: Fast Forward: Women in Photography.
The forthcoming issues will be launched during Paris Photo and again in December at the Fast Forward: Women in Photography conference at Tate Modern in London (Nov 30 – Dec 2).
Join the many readers all over the world Read More
CONTACT Women and Photobooks Symposium
May 4, 2019 @ AGO’s Jackman Hall, Toronto, Canada
Publishing was, historically, the privileged medium to circulate images, and women used it to claim their artistic, economic, political and sexual independence. Although their contribution to the history of photography and to publishing was definitive and groundbreaking in many areas, the publications Read More
In a special collaboration with Marinella SENATORE and gallery artist Silvia GIAMBRONE, this exhibition brings together two leading artists to explore Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art. Curated by Paola Ugolini, the exhibition is a visual representation of struggle, resistance and growing awareness in the belief that art can trigger a constructive dialogue–overcoming differences in gender, Read More
Catherine McCormack, academic and expert in the field of maternal themes in art, curates a two-part exhibition exploring maternal experience and subjectivity.
The first exhibition explores the idea of ‘matrescence,’ a term developed byanthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973 in an attempt to theorise the transitional period of shifting the body and psyche in the process of Read More
Grey Gallery is a nomadic entity working with artists, writers and musicians on a project by project basis and returns to Eleven Spitalfields, newly reconfigured with a beautiful double height main gallery and retaining the ground floor of the early Georgian townhouse which hosted previous exhibitions since 2010. This new exhibition brings together the work Read More
The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce Photography Now 2019, juried by Maurice Berger and Marvin Heiferman. Featured artists include Cynthia Bittenfield, Martha Díaz-Adam, Maureen R. Drennan, Nona Faustine, Luther Konadu, Sara Macel, Jean L. Sousa and Derrick D. Woods-Morrow.
Today, the search for identity—the need to understand and represent who we are Read More
“What can images that move do for people who cannot? What can documentary photography as a practice, form, and genre do in its ubiquitous, global circulation for those rendered immobile by colonial occupation?
More specifically this thesis asks: How do contemporary Middle Eastern women photographers working in Palestine, throughout the Middle East, and the diaspora contest Read More
LUX,
Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London N19 5JF
Sat 19 Oct 2019 / 2-4pm
As part of our current exhibition All You Need’s An Excuse, please join us for a special screening of a recent acquisition by the London Community Video Archive (LCVA), All Work and No Pay, made in 1975 by the Power of Women Read More
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
September 14 – December 15, 2019
A large-scale exhibition of international artists, highlighting the experiences of women and celebrating their triumphs – and showing how the struggle for liberation is ongoing and hard-won.
Just like moons and like suns,
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A Room of Our Own
A Fast Forward Women in Photography Exhibition
17 October–21 December
Mann Island Winter Garden
Outside Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
LOOK Photo Biennial Launch Night
6–8pm, 17 October, Open Eye Gallery
Although great gains have been made in the movement towards gender parity over recent years, there is still far to go. Working Read More
Worldwide, many countries are reinforcing their borders and turning increasingly inwards, but a collective international awareness is also on the rise. Global issues must be tackled from a sense of global belonging; this edition of LOOK Photo Biennial seeks to encourage this belonging. As a medium, photography is equipped for this: images are shareable, accessible Read More
a photography exhibition and live music event to celebrate the work of 20 photographers form around the world.
Wed, 11 September 2019 18:30 – 21:30 BST
Hart’s Lane London SE14
Alongside our second print issue, shado has produced a 3-month photography project with 18 photographers around the world where each photographer has responded to the brief I AM Read More
Higher Pictures is pleased to present Susan Lipper’s Domesticated Land, her third show with the gallery. Preceded by Grapevine (1988−92) and trip (1993−99) and following a thirteen-year hiatus, Domesticated Land – begun in 2012 and continuing into the present day – brings Lipper’s familiar feminist, utopian-seeker persona further West into the California desert.
Her meticulously composed Read More
STREET / FORM investigates photography’s relationship with the urban landscape and street culture. The juxtaposition of shape and form, the encounters with the unknown, the intimacy with strangers. 70 photographers from around the world find inspiration in the street.
Shutter Hub have teamed up with one of the most exciting street art festivals in the world, and have Read More
FAST FORWARD: HOW DO WOMEN WORK?
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT TATE MODERN
30 November 2019, 10.30–17.00
1 December 2019, 10.30–18.00
2 December 2019, 10.30–14.00
Please join our conference to discuss how the framing of photographic practice can be reimagined. Following two inspiring international conferences about the role of Women Photographers, held at Tate Modern in 2015 and National Gallery of Art in Lithuania Read More
Tickets are now available for the BOP Bristol 19 programme of artist talks.
BOP Bristol 19 is a brand new photobook festival hosted by Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society at Paintworks, Bristol.
The festival brings together a diverse range of photobook publishers and sellers from the UK and Europe providing an opportunity for photographers Read More
Photographs by Czech photographer Markéta Luskačová taken on the North East coast of Britain in the late 1970s will go on display at the Martin Parr Foundation to coincide with the first publication of this series of work by RRB Photobooks.
“I was thirty-two when I saw the northern sea for the first time. It was Read More
Finnish Museum pf Photography
Discussion “Women in Art: Is it all about talent?”
Wednesday August 28 at 5.30pm – 8pm.
The question of talent is often mentioned as justifying the absence of women in art exhibitions. But is it all about talent?
The photographers Marie Docher (FR), Karen Knorr(UK), Elina Brohterus (FI) and Hertta Kiiski (FI) participate in the discussion. The Read More
Social media’s censorship of women’s bodies is deeply problematic. The ever changing guidelines for what is and isn’t acceptable on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are inherently sexist and arbitrary. The intense suppression of the female form harms artists and reinforces dangerous and warped ideas regarding value that women have been battling for Read More
Portraits change the way we understand one another. Whether this is professional photos, selfies on Instagram or snapshots of our friends, the photos that we take of ourselves and each other speak volumes about who we are and who we want to be.
Through portraits, we come face to face with someone else: they create a Read More
Her Ground at Flowers Gallery in London uses landscape as a thematic focus to consider relationships between genre and gender. The term landscape, a principle category in Western art, is used in relation to the visible features of an area of land, often depicting human relationships to place and the environment. This exhibition looks at the specificity of viewpoint, addressing the Read More
Curated by Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, Resist: be modern (again) at John Hansard Gallery explores the practices of women artists, designers and writers of the 1920s and 30s through the work of contemporary artists.
These early pioneering women were important ground breakers for their time, many of their ideas are reverberating until today. Their battles against Read More
The interview was filmed on May 15, 2019 at Synesthesia MMAINTENANT, Saint-Denis – as part of the Lou-Maria Le Brusq secondary residence exhibition program – on an invitation from Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre, as part of the Lines of Lives exhibition – an exhibition of legends. Collective exhibition from March 30 to August 25, Read More
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.
Let’s change that.
Join members of Read More
Transformative Moments
Williamson Art Gallery
Slatey Road, Birkenhead,
Wirral, CH43 4UE
15 June – 26 July 2019
Photographer Stephanie Wynne and women from Wirral Change, a BME outreach centre,
present ‘Transformative Moments’ at the Williamson Art Gallery this June.
The women came together during 2018 to mark and celebrate the centenary of the crucial point in British history when some women Read More
An exhibition of photography reflecting on the work of women in the 21st century and celebrating 145 female-identifying photographers from around the world curated and presented by Shutterhub in partnership with Festival Pil’Ours.
145 female photographers, 435 images, from across 15 different countries. It’s Time To Think and Shutterhub are proud to be taking this inclusive Read More
Freelands Foundation survey of the UK’s art sector highlights incremental progress in the public sector, but commercial galleries are still lagging behind in their representation of women artists.
A new report by the Freelands Foundation has shown that there has been limited progress in the representation of women artists in public institutions, with career success in Read More
Foto Femme United is an international women’s photography collective and community established and based in Paris, France. Our mission is multi-layered. To start, we believe that empowering women in photography around the world is vital. The ratio of successful male photographers to female photographers is 3:1. We challenge the white male gaze that exists in Read More
100 Years Opening of the Berlin Art Academy for Women
Exhibition from June 17, 2019 to October 13, 2019
Schloss Biesdorf, Alt-Biesdorf 55, Berlin
with Birgit Bellmann (graphic print), Alke Brinkmann (painting), Ines Doleschal (collage), Else (Twin) Gabriel (photography, video, painting), Ellen Kobe (performance, installation), Coco Kühn (installation), Petra Lottje (video, drawing), Seraphina Lanz (wall piece, object), Cornelia Renz Read More
Documentary photographer and anthropologist Alegra Ally travelled to the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia from October through December 2016 to study and document the Nenets way of life. For thousands of years, indigenous Nenets have lived nomadic lifestyles herding reindeer across the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic.The Khudi family is one of 12,000 Nenets still Read More
In collaboration with Salusbury World Refugee Centre and London College of Communication 20:20 focuses on the visual re-telling of 20 oral histories collected from 20 refugees who came to the UK 20 years ago.
This multi-media experience focuses on stories of homeland, adaptations to exile and celebration of resilience from refugees who came to the UK Read More
Beyond the Perfect Image
15 June 2019—16 June 2019
What you’ll do
Join us to celebrate ageing and reflect on illness through a programme of performances, screenings and discussions about what defines a healthy body.
On Saturday, take part in a programme of events including stand-up comedy, singing from St Christopher’s Hospice Community Choir, screening of artists’ films and Read More
Male artists far outnumber their female counterparts in Swiss art museums. Over the past decade, around one quarter of all artists showcased in museums were women, a swissinfo.ch/RTS survey reveals.
Worldwide, 2019 seems to be a good year for female artists. At the Tate Britain museum in Londonexternal link, for example, a new display Read More
A Photo Lab talk with Marilene Ribeiro at Goldsmiths University of London.
Marilene’s book “Dead Water” has just been shortlisted for the “Arles 2019 LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD”, winners to be announced on the 4th July.
Dead Water tells the story of dams and hydropower from the perspectives of the people who have been affected Read More
From the volume Feminist Issues in Contemporary Art (1979) to the publications of several interviews with artists including Laurie Anderson, Tracey Emin, Rose Garrard, Susan Hiller, Mary Kelly, Tina Keane, Georgina Starr, Mona Hatoum, Runa Islam, Silvia C. Ziranek (to mention just a few) Audio Arts Magazine featured a significant and diverse spectrum of women’s Read More
A new exhibition celebrates black British creativity from the 1970s to the present day. Its curator discusses the show and talks us through eight key pieces
by Colin Grant
“As a child, my superheroes were artists,” says Zak Ové. Perhaps it was inevitable growing up in a bohemian west London household with his father, Horace, a Trinidad-born Read More
For the annual Photo London keynote, The National Portrait Gallery are pleased to announce Dutch documentary photographer Dana Lixenberg (Amsterdam, 1964). She joins Magda Keaney, Senior Curator, Photographs to discuss her recently exhibited series American Images, which comprises a selection of portraits of American icons who have been instrumental in shaping today’s popular culture. Many Read More
The 23rd edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography continues until June 2. With 27 exhibitions and 21 artists, it explores the unusual theme of “flood,” or inundation and overflow. While this theme is explored in the works included in this year’s edition, it can also be seen in the whole festival programme, which keeps Read More
AWITA has partnered with Photo London to present “The photographer and her subject: do women see things differently?”. This will take the form of a discussion, moderated by Charlotte Jansen in which contemporary female photographers Mary McCartney, Hannah Collins and Juno Calypso will share three images of their work; they will then discuss with Maryam Read More
First Women comprises a unique collection of 100 portraits capturing women in the UK who were “first” in their field of achievement. The portraits by photographer Anita Corbin provide inspiration and insight for a new generation of women seeking an understanding of their own roles in a rapidly changing world in which equality is still Read More
MARIA KAPAJEVA
DREAM IS WONDERFUL, YET UNCLEAR
Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga
May 16 – June 30, 2019
Opening: May 16th, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: May 28th, 6pm
Latvian Museum of Photography is pleased to present a solo exhibition of an Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva Dream Is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, which opens on May 16th. The exhibition is part of Riga Read More
AUTOGRAPH presents two exhibitions
26 APRIL – 17 AUGUST 2019
LONDON: AUTOGRAPH
CURATED BY RENÉE MUSSAI AND BINDI VORA
Lola Flash
[SUR]PASSING
Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, photographer Lola Flash’s work challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual, and racial preconceptions.
Her art and activism are profoundly connected, fuelling a life-long commitment to visibility and preserving Read More
From the end of March 2019, until the end of the year, the view of Boston Harbour and a view across Sheffield towards Park Hill and the Cholera Monument are being transmitted live via network cameras simultaneously.
Each image is being constructed pixel by pixel from the top left to the bottom right hand corner of Read More
Milla Talassalo’s exhibition is a study of triplet sisterhood. In the exhibition, entitled 3, Talassalo examines individuality and her own identity in relation to her sibling counterparts.
It is difficult to explain triplet sisterhood. The finest aspect is the phenomena of feeling, periodically, understood without words. For Talassalo, her sisters’ worries are her worries, and their Read More
A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers.
You don’t have to apply. It doesn’t cost anything, it’s fully customisable, and you can be in residence for as long as you choose. You don’t even have to travel, the residency takes place entirely inside your own home and everyday life. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is Read More
From equipment ‘designed by men for men’ to clients assuming they’re the makeup artist, female photographers are still fighting against the tide.
by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Push-ups and photography aren’t normal bed partners. But when Cybele Malinowski was starting out as a young photography assistant in 2005, she was told to do 100 push-ups a day. The reason? Read More
The exhibition Dry Joy by Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja presents a selection of her works from a period of more than ten years. Susiraja creates candid and honest photographs and videos with a sense of warmth and humour. Although she appears in the works herself, they are not simply self-portraits but rather performances for the Read More
Several new studies examine precisely how much worse women fare in the art market than their male peers. It’s not a pretty picture.
By now, it has been well established that it’s hard for female artists to make it in the art world. But when it comes to attaining art-market success, new research suggests it’s even Read More
Victoria J. Dean and Sharon Murphy share a concern with landscape and with interventions in the landscape: built structures that emanate ambiguous force or presence; and semi-allegorical child-figures who are sited or staged in different natural settings. Dean’s practice explores the human propensity to rationalise space, in the context of place and landscape, while Murphy’s Read More
Over half a century has passed since the publication of Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto. Taking its cue from Chiara Fumai’s rendering of the radical feminist manifesto, this panel discussion attempts to unpack the complexities of being a non-male artist and the ways feminism can act as an antidote in an inherently patriarchal art system.
The panel, Read More
In 2014, I was working in rural Maharashtra, in western India, when I heard about the Bahoda festival, in which papier-mache artists create masks of characters from Hindu and tribal myth. People are chosen to wear them and are consecrated by a priest, after which they “become” their characters and parade through their village over Read More
In partnership with The Childhood Trust, Bedrooms of London presents a new body of work by photographer Katie Wilson highlighting the damaging consequences for children arising from the shortage of social housing in London. Focusing on the spaces in which children are sleeping, the photographs are shown alongside first-hand narratives from families collected and written Read More
From March 2019, Richard Saltoun Gallery is dedicating 100% of its programme to women. This 12-month programme is part of the gallery’s long-standing commitment to supporting under-recognised and under-represented female artists. 100% Women aims to protest the gender inequality that persists in the art world and encourage wider industry action through debate, dialogue and collaboration.
Today Read More
Pen + Brush celebrates over a century of being the only non-profit in New York exclusively devoted to the showcasing and support of women contemporary artists and writers with their inaugural exhibition
Furies, Fairies, Visionaries. This exhibition features works by thirty artists utilizing the visual languages of both fantasy and abstraction to claim and create space. Addressing gender, Read More
Each year, London-based collector Valeria Napoleone sets an acquisition budget for herself, and considers what works she might add to her roughly 400-work-strong collection of art by women, built over more than two decades. In the past five years, she noticed a strange, recurring phenomenon: Works by young artists, often barely out of grad school, Read More
The upcoming exhibition at The Lightbox gallery and museum, Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers (30 January 2019 – 2 June 2019) will feature around 70 works including Turner Prize winners and nominees and Venice biennale exhibitors such as Helen Sear, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Collins, Gillian Wearing and Jane and Louise Wilson. The works featured will Read More
Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition showcasing her video work Test Shooting opens at CBS Digital Artspace in Copenhagen, Denmark January 15- February 15 with Artist Talk February 1st from 3-5pm.
Test Shooting focuses on the interaction between the sexes testing the absurdities of the stereotypical presentation of female attractiveness.
Test Shooting won the Runner-Up award at FOKUS Video Art Read More
The Lightbox gallery and museum is delighted to welcome back the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham for an exhibition showcasing the very best artwork from MFA photography students. The UCA photography department has a reputation for educating some of the most innovative photographers of our time. This exhibition will offer visitors a unique Read More
BBC Radio / The Conversation
War Through A Woman’s Lens
As a conflict photographer you need bravery, passion and an ability to bear witness to unimaginable horror. Kim Chakanetsa brings together two women who are exceptional photojournalists and asks do female photographers look at conflict differently? The American photographer Lynsey Addario is one of very few Read More
Discussion between Abigail SOLOMON-GODEAU and Gabriele SCHOR, chaired by Fannie Escoulen at Paris Photo 2018.
You can watch the video here.
So To Speak tells the story of a separation through visual poetry and photographic imagery. The writing and photographs are the product of the period of one year of grief the artist experienced after the moment her long-term relationship ended and while still living in the same house as her former partner.The artist uses her daily walks Read More
For its first regional event of South Caucasus Moving Museum of Photography that will take place on Wednesday, December 5th in Yerevan, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum partners with AGBU Armenia and 4plus agency.
A collection of slideshows by contemporary Georgian, regional and international photographers will be screened in the program of the Moving Museum of Read More
The PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant aims to empower the work and careers of female and non-binary professionals of all ages and from all countries working in diverse areas of photography. Moving into its second edition, its mission is to support the growth of the new generations and promote stories narrated from a female perspective, while Read More
As a final instalment of their series ‘the Female Gaze’, Photo London is delighted to present a screening of ‘A Much Better Illusion’ by Chloe Sheppard alongside a conversation with Ione Gamble of Polyester zine.
For this evening event, there will be a screening of Chloe’s first film ‘A Much Better Illusion’, after which Read More
As part of their ongoing series ‘The Female Gaze’, Photo London is delighted to present this conversation, which will explore the use of Instagram as a platform for social change.
For this evening event, Hannah Watson, the director of TJ Boulting Gallery will moderate a discussion between Eliza Hatch, artist and founder Read More
This paper explores what it might mean for historians to take seriously the shared history of firearms and cameras, two technologies that co-evolved in the 19th century and that have had a profound impact on society ever since. As David Campbell writes, “the technologies of the gun and camera…evolved in lockstep.” (Campbell 2012; Landau 2002; Read More
The worlds of art and fashion merged in the 1980s on the pages of illustrated magazines. Since the early 1990s, fashion photographs have migrated effortlessly between the art field and the commercial field, between being considered personal works or assignments limited by the ideas and wants of designers, brands and fashion publications. An important material Read More
We are pleased to announce the opening of the FIF_BH exhibition “Shared Spaces of the Imagens” in the Photo Gallery of the Centro Cultural Fiesp, in the city of São Paulo. The opening event will take place on November 6 at 19h30.
Idealization / Curated: Bruno Vilela and Gui Cunha
Participating Artists Read More
The new photographic work of the Greek-German artist Christina Dimitriadi be shown at the ISLAND HOPING exhibition , presented by the City of Athens Cultural, Sports and Youth Organization, in the Arts Center from 9 November 2018 to 3 February 2019. An opening event is planned for 8pm on 9th November 2018.
The exhibition is the first individual presentation of the artist in a public institution Read More
Phase One of the V&A Photography Centre is now open. To mark this occasion, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge undertook her first visit to the V&A as Royal Patron on October 10, ahead of the Centre’s public opening on October 12.
More information about Phase One and the inaugural display in the Photography Read More
Discover the extraordinary breadth of the V&A’s photography collection, which has been growing and evolving since the 1850s, and was recently augmented by the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society collection.
From early daguerreotypes to contemporary digital images, This two day conference explores the history of photography through the lens of collecting and considers Read More
#LaPartDesFemmes
invited by
PARIS PHOTO
A MANIFESTO FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
The collective #LaPartdesFemmes, committed to support both the visibility and recognition of female photographers, will unveil their Manifesto for Photography initiated by Marie Docher on 8th November during PARIS PHOTO 2018, the largest international art faire dedicated to photography.
Shortly after the publication of our open letter to the director of the Rencontres d’Arles Read More
Join Chloe Dewe Mathews as she presents her new monograph in conversation with curator Sarah Allen
Caspian: The Elements is Chloe Dewe Mathews’s record of five years spent roaming the borderlands of the Caspian Sea. In a resource-rich region roiled by contested geopolitics, Dewe Mathews found that elemental materials like oil, rock, and uranium are central to Read More
WOMEN, THE EXCEPTION AN UNDER-REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN PHOTOGRAPHY?
Organised by Fannie ESCOULEN
Thursday 8 November
AUDITORIUM – LEVEL 1
The invention of photography has paved the way for new professional, social and creative conquests. Amateurs and the curious hurried to manipulate the medium, in search of experimentation and discovery. Women, finding it a means of expression and personal Read More
Tue 30 Oct 12-1pm
Get to know our artist in residence Chinar Shah and curator in residence Zuzana Jakalová at our Residency Social.
Shah joins Bluecoat from Bangalore for the first of her two-part residency in partnership with Bluecoat, Hope University, FACT and AHRC. She is interested in the power dynamics of the internet, cyberfeminism and women’s experiences of race, caste Read More
I’M HOME brings together the works of Black British Female Photographers who explore the ideas of the home and family. The aim of the show is to collectively present the work of both established and emerging photographers in purpose-designed space that allows the viewer to experience an aspect of the lives of the artists well as the works.
Featuring the Read More
The Bravest Little Street in England – A memorial to the lost men of Chapel Street by local artist Carole Evans
At: AIR Gallery, 30 Grosvenor Road, Altrincham, WA14 1LD, 14 November – 25 November 2018
Private View; 13 November, 6pm – 9pm
Panel discussion with artist: Saturday 17 November, 11am
The Bravest Little Street in England is a solo exhibition by Read More
Sabeena Gadihoke’s talk will focus on a recent curatorial project titled Light Works, which explored the oeuvre of photographer Jitendra AryaSabeena Gadihoke’s talk will focus on a recent curatorial project titled Light Works, which explored the oeuvre of photographer Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Bengaluru during 2017-18
Booking for this Read More
Aperture and Paris Photo have announced the shortlist for the 2018 PhotoBook Awards.
The shortlist selection was made by Lucy Gallun, associate curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art; Kristen Lubben, executive director of the Magnum Foundation; Yasufumi Nakamori, PhD, incoming senior curator of international art (photography) at Tate Modern, London; Lesley A. Martin, creative Read More
Outside a Lawson portrait you might be working three jobs, struggling. But inside her frame you are beautiful, imperious, unbroken, unfallen.
“Imagine a goddess. Envision a queen. Her skin is dark, her hair is black. Anointed with Jergens lotion, she possesses a spectacular beauty. Around her lovely wrist winds a simple silver band, like two rivers Read More
Friday 30 November: 14.00 – 17.30 Talk & Panel Discussion / 18.00 – 21.00 Evening Networking Event
The networking evening event is available for those with a dual symposium ticket only.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
To open the up the dialogue on one of our key themes Year Of The Woman we invite you to Read More
“An exhibition at Düsseldorf’s prestigious NRW Forum has become a lightning rod in the German art world and set off a tense debate over representation due to its sparse inclusion of women artists.
The row began on social media and gained steam after the Berlin-based, South African artist Candice Breitz and the Vienna-based curator Verena Kaspar-Eisert initiated Read More
Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries, Britain 1750 – 1950
Saturday 9 February 2019, 9.30am – 5.30pm
This symposium adds to the growing body of feminist scholarship that is deconstructing the male-dominated history of commercial and industrial artistic production. The programme will bring together current interdisciplinary perspectives on women’s experiences of work and the gendered Read More
London College of Communication is delighted to welcome Professor Karen Knorr to deliver the Royal Photographic Society Inaugural Women in Photography Lecture. Karen will be in conversation with Anna Fox after the lecture followed by a short break before a panel discussion to mark the occasion of the Women in Photography inaugural lecture, featuring Poulomi Basu, Natasha Caruana, Read More
We believe in changing the lives of women, one camera at a time.
Women whose voices are rarely if ever heard, from domestic helpers in Hong Kong to children of sex workers in Pakistan, are taking photos thanks to Lensational’s photography training. These photos reflect their thoughts, emotions and dreams. At Lensational, we imagine a world Read More
The Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) based in Florence and the Eskenazi Museum of Art of Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana) are setting up an internet database devoted to works by women artists active in the United States and Europe prior to 1800. The organizers are asking all European CODART members for their help in Read More
Focus Kazakhstan: Post-nomadic Mind, London
at the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London,
19 September-16 October 2018.
Evening Discussion on Thursday 27 September, 7pm.
Professor Katy Deepwell, editor KT press/n.paradoxa, and artists Almagul Menlibaveva and AselKadyrkhanova.
They will discuss the role and development of female artists in post-soviet countries, looking particularly at the Kazakh art scene. As well as Read More
The Photographers’ Gallery, 2-5pm
This timely discussion builds upon an increasing focus on the practise of and positions held by women in photography, with the aim of addressing aspects of life and society beyond art and gender divisions, in our current #MeToo climate.
In both looking back and towards the future, this event reflects upon the images used for the #MeToo Read More
As you will be aware, Dr Shahidul Alam was arrested, tortured and imprisoned in Dhaka Bangladesh at the beginning of August. Shahidul is an internationally respected photographer, journalist and activist and a good friend and colleague to many of us working in the photography and the academic worlds here in the UK.
University of Sunderland, where Read More
The open letter, initiated by Marie Docher to Sam Stourdze, the Director of Les Rencontres d’Arles festival addresses an urgent need to represent with equality the whole multi-cultural spectrum of photography including all human tonalities, all genders, and all orientations if it indeed wants to maintain its primacy on the international stage.The full text of Read More
Founders Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu discuss their project MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora is a publication and platform committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent. The inaugural issue featured over 100 women photographers from across the Diaspora.
Ahead of the Read More
Africa in the Photobook is a website initiated in 2015 by photographer and (photo)historian Ben Krewinkel. The website is about the changing visual representation of Africa as expressed through the medium of the photobook. By showcasing book spreads the books become partly accessible to a wider public and function as a platform for students, collectors and Read More
How We See: Photobooks by Women
New York: 10×10 Photobooks, 2018
Edition of 600
Designed by Laura Coombs
How We See: Photobooks by Women, 10×10 Photobooks’ latest project and publication presents a global range of 21st-century photobooks by female photographers.
With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is Read More
National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje
3 July – 28 August, 2018
‘Why Have There Been No Great (wo)Men Artists?’ is the first in the series of regional exhibitions that are being organised as a part of the ‘Perceptions’ programme. The exhibition showcases pieces that are a part of the British Council collection of UK art, as well Read More
“The artist Carrie Mae Weems recalls sitting at her desk in Syracuse in 2014 “feeling very anonymous and misunderstood and trying to figure out how to make some new work” when she got the call.
“I was offered this extraordinary gift,” she said. “It was important, because I needed the money, but more than Read More
Make your nomination for a female photographer here and tell us why she’s a heroine.
heroine ‘A woman distinguished and venerated for her extraordinary courage, fortitude, or noble qualities.’ (The New Shorter Oxford English dictionary).
Please fill in the fields in the nomination form below. We advise you to prepare longer answers in Word or similar and then Read More
Memorial to all Women Edited out of History
A staggering story is enfolding in Lithuania.
In 1965 Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre visited Nida, USSR. The main motive for the visit is said to be J. P. Sartre’s affair with Lenina Zonina* who was his translator and official interpreter during his numerous visits to USSR.
Writers Mykolas Read More
First Women comprises a unique collection of 100 portraits capturing women in the UK who were “first” in their field of achievement.
The portraits by photographer Anita Corbin provide inspiration and insight for a new generation of women seeking an understanding of their own roles in a rapidly changing world in which equality is still an Read More
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art are pleased to present Women by Women, as part of the Idea of North season. Curated by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, this intimate collection explores the representation of women and girls in the North East of England by women photographers, moving back and forward through time, between the 1970s and the present.
For Read More
Exhibition opening: Sun 24 June 2018, 1.00-4.00pm
Performance night: Thu 5 July, 7.00-9.00pm ‘What does it mean to wear Hannya’ Storytelling by Laura Sampson, Shamisen play by Yui Shikakura
Exhibition continues until 29 July 2018.
Wiebke Leister’s research investigates the nature of photographic portraiture beyond the limits of individual likeness – focussing on representations of faciality in relation to its facial Read More
A collaborative symposium
Four Corners with History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, Birkbeck
Thursday 28 June 2018, 2.00-6.00pm followed by drinks
Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury
Room to be confirmed
This event accompanies the Radical Visions exhibition at Four Corners Gallery, and the launch of its new digital archive. It will consider Camerawork’s engagement, role and influence with community-practice, feminism and representation, and ask Read More
Opening: Thu 5th July 18:30 – FREE ENTRY ( Pls book via Eventbrite)
18:30 – 19:10 – Panel Discussion with:
Marilene Ribeiro – photographer and researcher, Brazil/UK
Sue Branford – journalist, BBC, Latin America Bureau, and Mongabay, UK
Anna Fox – photographer and professor, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Chair: Alícia Bastos, Braziliarty, Brazil/UK
19:10 – 19:30 – Film Read More
Women in the Arts: Iwona Blazwick
‘At last there is a communal mechanism for women to call a halt to the demeaning conventions of machismo’
For this series celebrating women in the arts, the Director of Whitechapel Gallery, London, discusses being a curator in the 1980s and the experiences that have shaped her understanding of gender in the Read More
A recent incident involving Dublin based artist Dragana Jurišić’s Instagram account makes all too clear the lack of control women have in representing their own bodies and the obfuscation surrounding the ways social media accounts are monitored, surveilled and censored.
On 10 May Dragana Jurišić’s Instagram account was removed without warning. Unable to log in, she Read More
n Thursday 17 May 2018, South African writer and former Artthrob editor Matthew Blackman published an article announcing that an inquiry was being launched into the professional conduct of Mark Coetzee, the former executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA – Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. The article speaks of “unconfirmed rumours” of “abuses Read More
Over 20 photographers representing several generations of artists throughout the last 3 centuries, highlighting Georgia’s very rich and complex history of photography. The exhibition “In and Out of Reality” is divided in two volumes. Volume I covers the period starting from the end of 19th century – the debut of the history of photography in Read More
We are very happy to invite to the talk with Clare Strand at the Silencio (http://silencio-club.com) on Wednesday, April, 25th, at 7 PM.
Autograph ABP
London, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA
27 APRIL – 7 JULY 2018
Opening on April 26th, 6.30 – 8.30PM (please RSVP on their website)
In I Am Now You – Mother, Marcia Michael visualises the act of matrilineage through the body of her mother, Myrtle McKnight.
Michael uses photography and oral history to retrieve lost and Read More
In her 1971 landmark essay, “Why Have there Been No Great Women Artists,” art historian Linda Nochlin concisely outlined the long-held patriarchal power structures that have allowed the contributions of female artists to be eclipsed from history. “The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces,” Read More
“One of the great things about working for 40 years and being 190 years old is you get to see history,” the photographer Tina Barney, who is 72 years old, told a rapt audience last week. She paused for a bit, then continued, “You see so much in 40 years, and yet not much has Read More
Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery announced Helen Cammock as the seventh winner of the prize at a ceremony at the Whitechapel Gallery on 16 April 2018. Cammock was selected from a shortlist of artists including Céline Condorelli, Eloise Hawser, Athena Papadopoulos and Mandy El-Sayegh.
Congratulations, Helen!
The venue
Out of the Blue, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG
Open Monday- Saturday 10am-5pm / Closed Sundays
The exhibition
Nevertheless, She Persisted
May 8th – 18th 2018
Open daily and free to all
The project was released online on March 8th 2018 to coincide with International Women’s Day and will now be Read More
Martha Langford (Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University in Montreal)
New national histories of photography are appearing. Some are recuperative, supplementing the canon with missing or underestimated figures. Others are methodological retellings, refreshing the canon with new historiographical perspectives. Some are bent on justice, adapting postcolonial, decolonizing, or settler-colonial Read More
VII Photo Agency presents a round table with the seven women of VII: Anush Babajanyan, Linda Bournane Engelberth, Jessica Dimmock, Ilvy Njiokiktjien, Maggie Steber, Nichole Sobecki. Moderated by Sara Terry.
Will be live-streamed here: https://www.facebook.com/CFDbcn
Gender, sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement have sparked one of the most intense debates of recent years. How does Read More
The solo exhibition of new work by Clare Strand, titled The Discrete Channel with Noise, is featuring photography, painting, machinery and sound installation. The works on display are set in our time when the misinterpretation, mismanagement and misrepresentation of information – whether deliberate or accidental – has an ever-increasing and overwhelming effect on our everyday Read More
“She looks into me” is a series of intimate images that hold a deep reverence for a time when the mystery of life and the mystery of death were closely related.
Conceived in a manner close to theater this book is divided in 3 chapters that explore the idea of human representation and how looking at Read More
Our next Geekender is coming 16 – 18 March!
In collaboration with UAL Futures’ Feminist Internet Project we will be speculating on issues of power, gender and technology with a weekend of events, workshops and experimentation.
Friday night will kick off with a panel on “Tomorrow’s Nipple: censorship, subversion and social media” about the control of images Read More
Switzerland’s 1816 ‘year without a summer’, which provided the backdrop for the conception of Frankenstein, was part of a three-year period of severe climate deterioration. Chloe Dewe Mathews returned to the glaciers 200 years later, and the resulting photographs explore the environmental and social issues of our time through the themes of Mary Shelley’s novel.
Details
Where: Read More
Photography in India is a paradox. There are ample commercial opportunities, but few schools devoted to the medium. So, for the people of the world’s seventh largest country — with a population expected to overtake China — choosing a career in photography means either learning on the job or studying outside the country.
“There is very Read More
National Portrait Gallery, London
This captivating show proves that the most exciting thing happening in Victorian art was photography, and the bold and revolutionary Julia Margaret Cameron was the greatest British artist of her day.
Two young women stand side by side in the bright light of a window. One looks dreamily into the light, the other Read More
In Jean Cocteau’s post war film Orphée (1950) there is a beguiling moment when the then modern day Orpheus, standing in front of a full length framed mirror in his room, slides his hand through his own reflection. This once hard glassy impermeable surface becomes viscoelastic, transmutes into liquid; the ragile portal through which Orpheus moves into a parallel Read More
There and not there
Curated by Sarah McAvera
Absence is the connecting quality of two otherwise very different artists, Victoria J Dean and Sharon Murphy. With a background in theatre, Murphy’s photographs have the aura of a stage set, with the landscape in some ways acting as a curtain, covering up the story behind. While some works Read More
Annual Huntley (un)Conference 2018
Recent developments over the past few years seem to indicate that ‘we are moving on up’ or moving out of the frame – so are Black artists and curators experiencing a watershed moment with Blackness? With the advance copies of the No Colour Barlegacy book* published on 24th February, Read More
Photography sets the image free
Michelle Henning
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Location: University of West London, St Mary’s Road, Ealing
Date: Wednesday 7 March 2018
Time: Registration 6pm. Lecture commences 6.30pm
Free Admission: All welcome.
Photography is commonly understood as a static medium that “freezes” the moment. This characterisation of photography privileges certain kinds of practice, draws a sharp distinction between it and Read More
Private view: Wednesday 14 February 6-8pm
15 February – 31 March 2018
Curated by Paola Ugolini, Women Look At Women explores feminine identity through the work of thirteen internationally renowned women artists. In this inaugural exhibition at Richard Saltoun’s new gallery in Dover Street, each of the works on show reflects a different aspect of the relationship Read More
“For decades, the feminist artist was pushed to the sidelines.Relevant once again, she can no longer be ignored.
IN A LARGE, low-lit room is a triangle-shaped table arranged with 39 place settings, the site of a distinguished gathering. It is laid with plates that rise a few inches off the table, as Read More
“The 2018 India Art Fair is set to showcase work by some of South Asia’s best contemporary female artists. Among them are Mithu Sen, whose paintings and installations explore desire, eroticism and sexuality; Tayeba Lipi, a multimedia artist who broaches hard-hitting topics like feminism and transgender rights; and Tanya Goel, who makes her own pigments Read More
Presented at 24 Jor Bagh, “Mutations – Indo French image encounters” is a large-scale contemporary exhibition that will showcase the works of 16 photographers from both France and India : Anouck Durand, Baptiste Rabichon, Charles Freger, François Burgun, Laetitia d’Aboville, Marion Gronier,Philippe Petremant, Thierry Fontaine and Yannick Cormier, Anshika Verma, Asmita Parelkar, Dhruv Malhotra, Indu Antony, Sohrab Read More
Susan Meiselas
Mediations
Concorde, Paris
The retrospective devoted to the American photographer Susan Meiselas (b. 1948, Baltimore) brings together a selection of works from the 1970s to the present day.
A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Susan Meiselas questions documentary practice. She became known through her work in conflict zones of Central America in the 1970s and 1980s Read More
Photoforum Pasquart presents:
Seevorstadt 71
CH–2502 Biel / Bienne
Adrian Sauer (January 28 – April 15)
Adrian Sauer (*1976, lives and works in Leipzig, DE) explores in his photographs the foundations of a medium which, since its beginnings, has seen changes like no other medium.
Dorothée Elisa Baumann (January 28 – April 15)
In her artistic practice, Dorothée Elisa Baumann (*1972, Read More
This collaborative programme led by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) brings together five distinct art organisations across the UK, to show a diverse range of art works and new commissions from some of the most exciting female artists working in mainland China.
NOW explores how the diversity of current female artistic practice transcends notions of Read More
Thursday 8th February
5.30pm: Artist’s Talk, Free admission, seating limited.
6.30pm: Official Launch
8.00pm: Outdoor projection event
My Own Unknown, is an on-going series of work by Dublin-based photographer Dragana Jurišić. A very personal exhibition, the work addresses the complexities of exile, politics and betrayal together with family history. Organised into 5 chapters, the work opens out to explore important universal Read More
This exhibition showcases important materials from the archive of the late Jo Spence, British photographer, writer, and self-described ‘cultural sniper’, tracing links and collaborations in activist art, radical publications, community photography and phototherapy from the 1970s and 1980s. Consistent with Spence’s ethos of radical pedagogy, this exhibition focuses on her collaborative working methods. It opens Read More
Six contemporary art commissions highlight the progression towards equality through the stories of the women who have contributed to the spirit & history of Knole. Artists include Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emiy Speed, Melanie Wilson, and Alice May Williams.
KNOLE HOUSE, SEVENOAKS, KENT, TN15 0RP
17 MAY – 14 NOVEMBER 2018
For more information Read More
Join Francis Hodgson in an exploration of the work and practice of photographer Maryam Eisler. Eisler will be presenting her latest project Voices East London (2017) which features a series of striking images from the streets of East London- the City’s “creative ghetto” known for spearheading the UK’s biggest population rise over the past decade. Read More
Coming March 2018 from Schilt Publishing.
The village of Kolodozero, deeply concealed in the woods of Pudozh, is located on the border between Arkhangelsk Oblast and Karelia in Russia. In ancient times, people settled on the northern flanks of the local bodies of water—rivers and lakes. Kolodozero therefore consists of a handful of small Read More
Tribe is a collaborative exhibition of photography by mid-career professional artists. Their work is a narrative, addressing issues of family, history, love and loss. The artists are a group of women from all over the US.
Please see direct link for more information.
Exhibition Dates: January 25 – March 27, 2017
Location: Pen + Brush, 29 E. 22nd St., NYC
Press Preview: Thursday, January 25, 12–3 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 25, 6–8 p.m.
Pen + Brush inaugurates its 2018 exhibition program with the first comprehensive view of photographic work by Lola Flash. A fixture in the New York City art scene, Read More
“British Vogue has stopped employing the star photographers Mario Testino and Bruce Weber “for the foreseeable future” after multiple allegations of sexual exploitation of male models in the US.
The magazine confirmed the move after Anna Wintour, the New York-based artistic director of Condé Nast, said it would not be commissioning Read More
“A photograph believed to be of Gerda Taro, one of the world’s first and greatest war photographers, apparently lying on her deathbed in a hospital during the Spanish civil war, has been found 80 years after she was killed.
The photograph was published on Twitter several days ago by John Kiszely, a retired British lieutenant general, Read More
“As one of this year’s jurors for World Press Photo, I was stunned to learn that over the last ten years, the number of female entrants to the World Press Photo Contest has hovered around 15% (it remained at 15.5% in 2017).
March is Women’s History Month and in the current political and social climate, it’s Read More
“In 2011, Alfredo Jaar presented a modest exhibition, Three Women, at Paris’s Galerie Kamel Mennour. The show included three tiny photographs illuminated by six large paparazzi-like tripods. The contrast in scale was meant to draw attention to the fact that the subjects—all women activists with towering achievements—had been overlooked….
After Jaar completed Three Women—which Read More
WOMEN SEEN BY WOMEN
A special award celebrating the 10th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers juried by Analy Werbin, Senior Curator of the Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography
Selected among 720 entries from 42 countries, and after a preselection done by the curatorial team of the Photography Gala Awards, the Read More
10×10 Photobooks by Women (working title), the next project in nonprofit 10×10 Photobooks’ ongoing series of reading rooms, will focus on photobooks by female photographers. Female photographers make up a large percentage of the photobook community, yet their numbers in the top prizes and heavily promoted books are relatively small in comparison to Read More
Last week Jean Wainwright (Professor of Contemporary Art and Photography, UCA) discussed on BBC Radio 4 at Woman’s Hour a situation of female photographers and talked about our research project.
“Only 2% of photographers hired at major commercial agencies are women and 5% of the images used by leading publishers are from Read More
A full day symposium focusing on how photographers and artists engage with communities and establish networks that help them to forge successful careers. This event is in partnership with the University of Salford School of Arts and Media.
A good network can provide you with encouragement, advice, direction and experience. A poor network could Read More
Several new studies examine precisely how much worse women fare in the art market than their male peers. It’s not a pretty picture.
By now, it has been well established that it’s hard for female artists to make it in the art world. But when it comes to attaining art-market success, new research suggests it’s even Read More
Research Paper No.1
Representation of Female Artists in Britain
Research compiled by Charlotte Bonham-Carter
The following report was commissioned by Freelands Foundation in order to establish current and objective data in relation to the representation of female artists. The intention of the report is to contribute to existing debates, as well as to aid the Foundation in making Read More
Research Paper No.2
Representation of Female Artists in Britain in 2016
Research compiled by Charlotte Bonham-Carter
The following report was commissioned by the Freelands Foundation. The intention of the report is to provide up-to-date data on the representation of women in the art world, in order to sustain and provoke a critical awareness of gender parity in the Read More
An Artsy analysis comparing the artist rosters of the 199 female-run and male-run galleries showing at the 16th edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach provides one clue. Dealers who are women are 28% more likely to show artists who are women.
The gender breakdown of artists listed on the websites of the 126 male-run galleries showing at Read More
Galerie im Körnerpark: 4 November 2018 – 21 January 2018
nGbK: 2 December 2017 – 21 January 2018
Closed on: 24/25 and 31 Dec as well as 1 Jan
Exhibition, Booklet, Events
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Maria Thereza Alves, Hasan Aksaygın & Aykan Safoğlu, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro & Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Antye Greie aka AGF, Rajkamal Read More
“These stunning pictures, taken by Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba during their trip to Ireland in 1913, are believed to be the first color photos of Ireland ever taken.
The French women were part of a world-wide project titled “The Archives of the Planet.” French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn created the project to compose a “kind Read More
Acclaimed photographer, Trish Morrissey brings two brand new bodies of work to the Hestercombe Gallery, inspired by the last female occupants of Hestercombe House, Miss Warre (1790-1872) and Mrs Portman (1854-1951) who both independently ran the Hestercombe estate.
Crossing the disciplines of performance and photography and playing with notions of fact/fiction and time/history Morrissey’s work creates Read More
Join us for our first major survey of artists’ films, performances for the camera, critical writing, podcasts and limited editions by women artists from over 30 countries featured in our Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art since 2005.
Discover works reflecting the diverse artists’ interest in issues of memory and migration, dance and drama, films and Read More
No Man’s Land offers rarely-seen female perspectives on the First World War, featuring images taken by women who worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, and official photographers, as well as contemporary artists directly inspired by the conflict. Commemorating the First World War Centenary, No Man’s Land features photographs by three women of the epoch, alongside three women making work Read More
Join artists, photographers and researchers for our annual conference focusing on cities and urban spaces
For its tenth year anniversary, under the theme of ‘Cartographies’, this two-day event explores how we make sense of places through visual, sonic and photographic representations, across a variety of global contexts. Bringing together a wide range of international artists, urban Read More
New book is published by Firecrackers (editors: Fiona Rogers & Max Houghton)
A vivid showcase of work by more than thirty of the world’s leading contemporary female documentary photographers.
”I’ve always preferred not to be anything.” American artist Roni Horn is interviewed by her fan, Indian artist Dayanita Singh. The two acclaimed artists share a love of book making, and of the unique way that photography merges reality and fiction.
The video of the interview can be seen on the direct link.
The conference, Local/Global Dynamics in Feminism and Contemporary Art, was designed as a celebration of the 20 years of n.paradoxa (1998-2017).
SPEAKERS:
Katy Deepwell (founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal and Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism, Middlesex University)
Giulia Lamoni (art historian, Investigadora FCT, Instituto de Historio de Arte, Lisbon)
Ebru Yetiskin (curator, Associate Professor in Sociology, Media Theory, Digital Humanities. Read More
With Performing Afrotopia, Marie-Ann Yemsi, offers in collaboration with Kettly Noël an Afrotopia evening event, an abstract chapter of the Pan-African exhibition that explores the advantageous links between images, dance and performance. It will feature artists and collectives Rachel Monosov and Admire Kamudzengerere, Transcultural Protocol, Nelisiwe Xaba and Kettly Noël, The Impossible Dance.
The Ciné Mobile Read More
“We are not surprised.
We are gallerists, artists, writers, editors, curators, directors, arts administrators, assistants, and interns – workers of the art world – and we have been groped, undermined, harassed, infantilised, scorned, threatened, and intimidated by those in positions of power who control access to resources and opportunities. We have held our tongues, threatened by Read More
Then and Now: Japanese Women Photographers of the 1970s and ’80s Revealed Through Their Photobooks
Russet Lederman
The paper was presented firstly at Tate Modern conference “Fast Forward: Women in Photography” in 2015. Now it is published in Volume 8, Issue 1: Art and Vernacular Photographies in Asia, Fall 2017
“In March 2014, the Hasselblad Foundation presented the Japanese Read More
Launched in June 2008, Women in Photography is an innovative website founded by artists Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips that showcases the work of women artists. The internet-based project focuses on exhibiting work outside of the traditional model of the commercial art world, allowing it to reach a global audience and to provide opportunities at Read More
Fast Forward: Women in Photography – Lithuanian Edition
3 – 4 November, 2017
National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Building on the success of the Fast Forward conference at Tate Modern in 2015, co-organised by Tate, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) along with Photography Archive Research Centre (PARC) at University of the Arts London, Lithuanian Photographers Association and Read More
This is worth a read – wishing we had some stats for photography
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“….It’s not that women aren’t pursuing photography careers; they’re actually the majority in undergraduate photography programs. But in professional settings, success often depends on knowing the right people and being able to persuade them of one’s fitness for a job. Those interested in fashion and portrait photography, for example, often get their start as an assistant Read More
Commercialisation, climate change, studio space, censorship? As the art world flocks to Frieze, Nell Frizzell asks what’s on the mind of Marina Abramović, Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean, Maria Balshaw and more.
To read the answers, go to the direct link.
History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
All events free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
24 October 2017, 6:00-7:30pm
Keynes Library (room 114)
Dr. AnnaLea Tunesi (independent scholar)
Art Dealing, Taste and Politics: Photographs from the archives of Florentine art dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922)
Stefano Bardini, Self-portrait.
This paper explores the importance of photography in Read More
The HYSTERIA collective is raising funds for the printing and distribution of our eighth periodical on feminisms and power.
The HYSTERIA collective has been working very hard over the past nine months on the eighth issue of the HYSTERIA periodical. Now it’s time to share it with the rest of the world. But we need your help! Read More
“While we wait for Nikon to get it together, here are 32 amazing photographers from Women Photograph. Their work spans the globe, shows us stories from all walks of life, tells us about their beauty and struggle, and proves that our diversity is what makes us amazing. Best of all, they’re as diverse as their Read More
“The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s great galleries. Visitors flock to see Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and Grant Wood’s American Gothic, two of the most recognisable images in modern American art. But what has stunned art collectors is that a photograph of visitors to the Read More
“To prove their new camera is the best camera, Nikon invited 32 photographers from Asia, Africa and the Middle East to test it. You can read their stories of using the camera on the company’s website – Kelvin likes to photograph nature, while Cameron is more of a commercial guy and Mark takes pictures Read More
A catalyst and umbrella for cultural projects and advocacy where female equality provides the contextual backbone.
A Woman’s Place Project CIC:
A catalyst and umbrella for cultural projects and advocacy where female equality provides the contextual backbone.
Working with artists, heritage, education, environmental and community partners to nurture ambitious high quality projects
Supporting women and people who identify as women who work Read More
“Adwoa Aboah is both the poster girl for modern fashion and one of its most vocal critics. The 25-year-old model, who walked the Burberry catwalk on Saturday and Donatella Versace’s Versus show on Sunday, leads discussions around issues from imagery of black women in the media to the impact of Read More
“Sue was a well-known, respected, and liked figure in photography says Anne Braybon, photography historian and curator, and a close friend
Even Sue Steward, a writer who excelled in celebrating lives, might have struggled to write an obituary that unravelled the vibrant meshing of her own. She lived with ferocious energy and enthusiasm, and a genuine gift for friendship Read More
BRACHA invites you to the private view of an exhibition of photography and video art highlighting hereditary cancer
Curated by Tamar Arnon & Eli Zagury
Exhibition dates: 22nd – 26th September 2017
Rosenfeld Porcini gallery
37 Rathbone Street, London W1T 1NZ
Galllery opening hours:
10am – 6pm Sat: 11am – 6pm (free entry)
Sunday 24th September 2017 6pm – 9pm
The evening will include a presentation by BRACHA’s Read More
New perspectives on the border in Ireland
9 Sept – 22 Oct 2017
Thursday 14 September
5pm: Artist Kate Nolan ‘In Conversation’ with Stephanie McBride
6pm: Official launch of the exhibition
Gallery of Photography Ireland, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
London-based Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva’s largest solo exhibition thus far, entitled The Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, is opening at Narva Art Residency.
As part of the Tallinn Photomonth programme, London-based Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva returns to Narva Art Residency with a solo exhibition studying the social legacy of Krenholm. For 150 years, Krenholm – the Read More
Brooklyn Museum, NY USA
APRIL 21–SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia Gallery of Contemporary Art, 4th Floor
Focusing on the work of black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. Read More
Firecracker is platform dedicated to supporting women photographers.
Despite many fantastic women working with photographic media, the industry continues to be dominated by male counterparts.
Firecracker assists the promotion of women photographers by showcasing their work in a series of monthly online gallery features. Photographers are brought to our attention via a network of industry professionals Read More
MODEL
The Mother House,started the 5th of September 2016 at the IKLECTIK Art Lab. The model provides the freedom to work independently or alongside your children and it encouraged opportunities to work in collaboration with other artists creating a supportive and inspiring network.
The Mother House idea is born in response to the urge Read More
“There are many more women photojournalists than 30 years ago, women are now the majority of the photography program graduates in the leading journalism schools in the United States, and most of the top photo editors at the large publications are women. Still, Ms. Zalcman said the best assignments continue to go overwhelmingly to men.
Read More
“When I was a graduate student there weren’t many senior women in my department. There were narratives about them that seemed unique to each woman: One was crazy—I never really understood why, but there were hushed rumours and we were warned to stay away and not work with her. She had some impressive publications, but Read More
“It hangs with dozens of others in a new UK show of the South African photographer’s work. Muholi created one self-portrait in 2012 but it wasn’t until 2014 that she went back to the project that would become Somnyama Ngonyama(translated as Hail the Dark Lioness), with the idea of doing 365 shots in all. “You live Read More
“The following letter was shared by an artist who was recently awarded a place in a competitive residency program. For the sake of professional discretion, identifying details have been replaced with the letter X. Upon contacting them to work out the logistics of her stay, the artist was informed that some of the program’s policies Read More
ZANELE MUHOLI:
SOMNYAMA NGONYAMA, HAIL THE DARK LIONESS
In her first solo exhibition in London, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi (b 1972) presents her ongoing self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama.
In more than 60 photographs Muholi uses her body as a canvas to confront the politics of race and representation in the visual archive.
Taken primarily in Europe, North America Read More
“Judith Butler’s new book interweaves her two theories of performativity and precarity with the works of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Emmanuel Levinas as a way to critically assess and speak to Tahrir Square, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and other movements of dissent. In this interview, Stephanie Berbec asks her to consider her work in light of the Read More
The Zimbabwe Association of Female Photographers was launched in 2013 as a voluntary organisation that strives to raise the standard of professionalism in the industry through project-based training, networking and the promotion of our members’ work.
The ZAFP believes that as women we have a different story to tell and that our perspective is missing. Our Read More
Chai Khana is an issue-based international media platform focusing on women, rural communities, and ethnic minorities, and giving voice to the under-represented across the Caucasus. Founded and managed by young women, the Tbilisi-based outlet uses innovative and experimental approaches in documentary photography, multimedia, and film. The name Chai Khana, tea house, represents a symbolic, collective Read More
Women Seeing Women is a new exhibition celebrating the work of female photographers in documentary and fashion photography, and their interaction with their female subjects. The show, which includes contributions from 12 Magnum photographers, is at the Staley-Wise Gallery in New York City until 31 August.
To see a selection of Read More
Dis/Obedient Women Exhibition
curated by Sari Patnaik
in association with Art Night London 2017
in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery
Opening July 1 6-12pm
Kobi Nazrul Centre, 30 Hanbury Street, London E1 6QR
The Place is Here presents work by over twenty black artists and collectives working in 1980s Britain. Shown across the South London Gallery and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, the exhibition spans painting, film, photography and archival material from this pivotal decade in British culture and politics.
The Place is Here evokes some of the Read More
New Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices
International Workshop
Humboldt University of Berlin
16, 17 and 18 June 2017
This three-day workshop gathers international scholars and artists. From different disciplinary perspectives that include art histories, architecture, geography and archeology, speakers addresses the many pressing questions that representations of natural and man-made landscapes bring into focus: the national identity Read More
Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora is an exclusive and commemorative bi-annual journal committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent. The inaugural issue of Mfon features 100 women photographers across the Diaspora. This iconic issue features an introduction by Dr. Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and Chair of Read More
In his 1938 novel Enemies of Promise Cyril Connolly asserted that ‘there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall’. Since April 2009 Enemies of Good Art has debated the issues arising from this infamous quote.
Enemies of Good Art seeks to investigate the possibilities of combining art practice and Read More
“Mothers in Arts is a small initiative founded by Csilla Klenyanszki, who lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Mothers in Arts supports women artists who are also mothers and shines a light on the mother-shaped blindspot within the art world.
It puts forward a discussion about a problem that affects many young artist women when they Read More
Venue: Middlesex University, Grove Building, Hendon Campus, The Burroughs, Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT, UK.
Date: Monday 3 July 2017, 11-6pm.
This event is open to artists, academics and curators interested in feminism and contemporary art.
Katy Deepwell (founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal and Professor of Read More
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Linda Nochlin
A version of this story originally appeared in the January 1971 issue of ARTnews.
Implications of the Women’s Lib movement for art history and for the contemporary art scene—or, silly questions deserve long answers; followed by eight replies.
The full article is on the direct link
Between 1985 and 1990, London based artist Marysia Lewandowska recorded over 200 hours of audio with artists and academics, ranging from private conversations to public events. The Women’s Audio Archive began life as a fictional institute, invented as a way of approaching key female figures in the arts, becoming a valuable reflection of their politics and Read More
Female Photographers
The Jubilee Conference of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography (MAFOT) at the Petőfi Literary Museum and the Hungarian National Museum
The ten-year-old Hungarian Society for the History of Photography invites researchers interested in the history of photography to think together. At the conference in May 2017, the presentations Read More
Photography & the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at the London College of Communication invites you to the opening of The Other Observers: Women’s Photography in Britain – materials from the Val Williams Archive.
Curated by PARC Graduate Associates Ana Ascobar and Jacqui Taylor as part of the Moose on the Loose outreach programme.
Women in Photography the Read More
HEWING WITTARE present a 3 woman show with Chudamani Clowes, Rebecca Glover and Anna Liber Lewis entitled ‘Shapeshifting – tactics to combat drowning’ as part of the E17 Art Trial 2017.
Saturday, June 10 – 2pm
As two Jerwood Gallery exhibitions featuring women artists overlap (Jean Cooke and Eileen Agar), we are delighted to welcome curators and authors of A Woman’s Place Project Day+Gluckman, artist Jessica Voorsanger and Tate Curator and art historian Carol Jacobi to the gallery, to discuss the complex relationship of a woman artist to her personal biography.
The panel Read More
“There’s an old-fashioned myth that having a baby is going to make it impossible to work,” says painter Nikki Maloof. “I had just started gaining a lot of momentum in my career when I found out I was pregnant, so it was scary.” Maloof’s fear could apply to any number of career-oriented women across Read More
Michelle Doyle. The Irish Times.
A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions
L E N S T H I N K Y O R K S H I R E
Thursday May 11th will see the very first social for Lens Think Yorkshire, A bimonthly
social in Yorkshire to meet, share work, ideas, & develop photography in
the North. The night will see Al Palmer of Read More
Reflecting on Charlotte Salomon
An Exhibition and Study Day at the Women’s Art Library organised by Goldsmith University of London
Study Day : 15.05.2017, 11.00-18.00
Special Collections Reading Room
The event is free of charge, but booking is required.
Exhibition: 01.05.2017-31.05.2017
Special Collections Foyer
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), a German-Jewish artist who was killed Read More
Diffusion 2017 looks at REVOLUTION in its widest context, investigating through the prism of photography and lens-based media social change, freedom of expression, popular protest, human rights and the pursuit of utopias.
The Diffusion conference focuses on two key issues, with contributions from exhibiting artists, architects, designers, cultural theorists and committed urbanists.
Building the Revolution examines artist involvement Read More
READING THE COLLECTIONS, WEEK 47: CELEBRATING WOMEN: THE FRANKI RAFFLES PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
Spectacular work by photographer Franki Raffles
Born in Manchester and raised in London, Franki Raffles was an alumna of St Andrews University (MA in Moral Philosophy, 1977). After graduating she made her home in Scotland, first on the Isle of Lewis and later in Edinburgh, Read More
GSA & Edinburgh Napier University
Assessing the legacy and impact of feminist photographer Franki Raffles
Tuesday 25 April 2017, 11-4pm,
This symposium is a contribution to the appreciation of the current Franki Raffles exhibition Observing Women at Work at Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 4 March – 27 April 2017.
What are the lessons for contemporary feminist and Read More
Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 4 March-27 April 2017 An exhibition of work by the feminist social documentary photographer
Franki Raffles (1955-94) was a feminist social documentary photographer. This exhibition Observing Women at Work presents a selection of photographs and material by Franki Raffles [1955-94] from three bodies of work, namely ‘Women Workers in the Read More
Thu, April 27, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM BST
Helen Cammock works with moving image, photography, text, performance and installation. Within these various forms is her underlying interest and aim to consider how societal dissonance, that exists between the individual and collective experience embodies consequences of structural inequality.
Ideas around authorship and the appropriation, exchange, interruption and Read More
“In the course of a thirty-year career, the photographer Catherine Opie has made a study of the freeways of Los Angeles, lesbian families, surfers, Tea Party gatherings, America’s national parks, the houses of Beverly Hills, teen-age football players, the personal effects of Elizabeth Taylor, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Boy Scouts, her friends, mini-malls, and Read More
” “BP portrait award shortlist offers up all-female line-up” reads The Guardian headline.
Wonderful, I thought, as I’m sure many others did. Great stuff. Women artists are being recognised for a prestigious, high-profile art award. And not an award specifically for women, either.
But, before we all pat ourselves on the back and put on Read More
“In the summer of 2001, American Tom Sponheim was walking around Barcelona with his wife and found himself in a local flea market, Els Encants. On one of the stalls, he found a bunch of old negatives that he bought for $3.5, one dollar more that the seller was asking. Sponheim realized how valuable his Read More
Talk: “Women Rebels, Women Poets”
by Marta Gili, Director, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
LOCATION:
HU Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal 3075, Humboldt University of Berlin
24 May 2007, 18:00
Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte (IKB) der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
In this talk Marta Gili looks at the work of women photographers of the first Read More
New book is published by Laurence King:
Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze
By Charlotte Jansen
A new generation of female artists is emerging who have grown up in a culture saturated with social media and selfies.
This book looks at how young women are using photography and the internet to explore Read More
Publishing and photo books – From editing and design to marketing and distribution
Magnum Photos, London | Sat 29 & Sun 30 July 2017
Learn from the best publishers and photobook producers about the publishing market: covering how to pitch to publishers, methods of production, design, editing, and budgets.
BOOK A PLACE HERE:
https://magnumphotos.wufoo.com/forms/m1pxstip1jpyoc3/
Karen Knorr – Europe and India
Danziger Gallery
95 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
For our third solo show of photographs by Karen Knorr, the gallery is presenting a selection of her constructed animal scenarios taken in both Europe and India. Shot between 2003 and 2016 in various European museums and stately homes and in Indian palaces and Read More
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is opening a visual biography of the author Sylvia Plath, including her rarely-seen artwork.
“Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath’s literary recognition has only grown, whether the ubiquitous assignment of her lone novel The Bell Jar in American high schools, or her posthumous Pulitzer Prize for poetry Read More
UNA Y OTRA (ONE AND ANOTHER)
Curator: Rodrigo Orrantia
Carrera 5 # 26C – 40
Bogotá Colombia
Opening: Saturday 22 April
April-May 2017
This exhibition brings together the recent work of women artists who work with photography and video around the theme of identity and place. In the Read More
History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
Free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Wednesday 17 May, 2:00-5:00pm
Room G04
A collaboration with Birkbeck Architecture Space and Society Centre:
Sabine Wieber (Glasgow University)
‘Intimate Collaborations’ at the Photo Studio Elvira in Munich
Tag Gronberg (Birkbeck)
Architectural Relationships Past, Present and Future on the Côte d’Azur
Patrizia Di Bello, (Birkbeck)
Response: Read More
Interesting review on a new book Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen, published by Laurence King (2017)
University of Brighton
School of Media
Edward Street Campus Lecture Theatre
28th Apr 2017 1:00pm-5:30pm
Nostalgia is a recurring theme of contemporary popular film, television and digital media. Reboots and remakes, sequels and spin-offs fill our screens. DVD box sets repackage old shows as new products. Digital techniques recreate the look of celluloid, old photography and early cinema, as Read More
“She is smiling broadly and caressing her stomach. Judging by its shape and size, she’s eight months pregnant. Calle is 63, so this is surprising. On the other hand, given her affection for the flagrantly absurd, it is not surprising at all. After we exchange kisses, she ushers me in, explaining that she has turned Read More
Gestures of Resistance aims to respond to our current general mood of political anxiety and alienation by opening up socio-political critique in order to resist the palpable feeling of disempowerment. Rather than accepting the non-choice of the neoliberal setup of Greece or current right-wing politics both in America and Europe, the artists of Gestures of Read More
British Journal Of Photography: Female Gaze
Issue: May 2017
Female Gaze: New perspectives from the selfie generation. Charlotte Jansen considers a new generation of female photographers who make women their subject. Zuza Krajewska goes inside a prison for young male offenders. Endia Beal addresses themes of race, gender and corporate culture. And Laia Abril uncovers secret histories Read More
A Response to Sexism in Editorial Photography
by Erin Patrice O’Brien
“I always recognized that the editorial side of media seems to embrace, or at least maintain, the good-ole-boy network. It’s bothered me for some time, particularly given the female talent in the market on the demand and supply sides. There are plenty of amazing women photographers Read More
Under the Dark Cloth: Working with Photography Studio Archives is an International one-day symposium at QUAD, Derby, presented to coincide with the exhibition People, Places, and Things: the W. W. Winter’s Archive, on show at Derby Museum during FORMAT17.
Commercial photography studios were once common sights on almost every high street. Each has Read More
photographies journal was first published in 2007 to initiate theoretical and critical discussion of photography in local and global contexts.
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, photographies journal is holding a two-day conference. Bringing together a range of international speakers, it promises to be a defining event, engaging and interrogating the contemporary condition and currency of the Read More
Four Corners is delighted to invite you to the opening of The Partisan Coffee House exhibition, which tells the fascinating story of London’s first socialist coffee house, an ‘anti-espresso’ bar. Founded by social historian Raphael Samuel and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in Soho 1958, the Partisan was the spiritual home of the New Left.
The exhibition Read More
ACCA is proud to present a major exhibition of newly commissioned work by Melbourne-based, English-born artist Claire Lambe. Encompassing sculpture, photography and theatrical mise-en-scène, Lambe creates intimate and intense psychological spaces in an ambitious attempt to describe the human condition in its cruel reality and horrifying glory.
Known for her strange and often abject Read More
09:30-17:00 Richard Hoggart Building
Room 137a Goldsmiths, University of London
Engaging in Urban Image-making is a one-day symposium hosted by the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths, which brings together practitioners from: Sociology Goldsmiths, Photojournalism London College of Communication, Urban Photographers Association and London Independent Photography. Its purpose is to begin a dialogue Read More
The Problem of the Overlooked Female Artist: An Argument for Enlivening a Stale Model of Discussion
by Ashton Cooper for Hyperallergic
“My intention here is not to call out museums or simplistic writing, but to point out the ways in which institutions and publications — both major and minor — are guilty of perpetuating a schematic and Read More
ANNA FOX / MA FASHION / CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
12 – 26 APRIL 2017
In January this year, MA Fashion commissioned acclaimed British photographer Anna Fox to document the building of the final year collections. Over a two-month period, Fox engaged in fieldwork that reveals the process of fashion design at close quarters; in Read More
“Feminist artists have not always been interested in motherhood. Helen Million Ruby, one of the founding members of the activist group Mother Art and a student at the Feminist Studio Workshop in the Los Angeles Woman’s Building, was told by Judy Chicago that she couldn’t be a mother and an artist-the two were mutually exclusive. Chicago’s Read More
“The roles women take in universities aren’t recognised as routes to the top. But they demand as much drive as the posts traditionally scooped up by men”
Read the full article on the direct link
On the occasion of the international women’s day on 8 March. Young Photography Now publishes a special report on women photographers in the world today.
Several events, publications and resources are gathered here to reflect the growing interest in women photographers and their recognition in the world of Visual arts. Women are very active in photography Read More
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is home to an extraordinary range of documents, images, maps, film and books about London. This site offers an insight into the archives, with practical advice on how to research and use them, both at LMA and online.
We run a wide selection of talks, guided tours, film screenings, exhibitions and other Read More
This site is meant to be a resource for female* documentary and editorial photographers and the people who would like to hire them. Every photographer in this database is available for freelance assignments and has 5+ years of work experience.
If you are a picture editor, creative director, or someone who routinely hires photographers, please reach Read More
Women in Photography is an innovative website founded to give female photographers a platform to show their work to a global audience. Women from all over the world are welcome to submit their work. The aim is to give female artists a platform to show their work. Any female photographer is welcome to submit their work. Read More
Rawi(ya), the first photographic collective to emerge from the Middle East, translates to “she / he who tells a story” features a groundbreaking group of photographers: Myriam Abdelaziz, Tamara Abul Hadi, Gaith Abdul Hadad, Zein Ben Romhdane, Laura Boushnak, and Tanya Habjouqa.
Their work pushes both East and West to think about their Read More
Inspired by the idea behind a syjunta (Swedish word for sewing circle) TjejLand was founded 2014. Such circles were common for women to meet and socialize during the early and mid 1900s. TjejLand´s vision is to act like a social meeting place and to create a curative, creative platform & publications featuring female photographers around Read More
Foto-Féminas is a platform established by Verónica Sanchis Bencomo who is interested in promoting through monthly online features the work of female photographers working in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Foto-Féminas es una plataforma creada y establecida por Verónica Sanchis Bencomo, con la finalidad de promover a través de medios digitales y visuales a fotógrafas que trabajen Read More
Committed to Supporting Women in Photography.
The OGC is the brain child of Kate O’Neill and Alice Widger, born after noticing there was a lack of support or connections solely aimed for women in photography.
The OGC (a tongue n’ cheek poke at the industries’ ‘mythical’ Old Boys Club) hopes to help women within the photography industry connect, exhibit, promote Read More
Four Corners Film, London
6:45 PM – 9:00 PM
Photographers Maggie Murray, Gina Glover, Jenny Matthews and Joanne O’Brien discuss the work and experience of women photographers in the 1970s and 80s. This event is part of Four Corners’ Archive project, which is putting the Camerawork magazine online. To be chaired by Helen Trompeteler, writer and curator Read More
WOMEN IN ART SYMPOSIUM WITH W PROJECT
18.00–20.00
Join this special edition symposium from the W Project to celebrate International Women’s Day
The W Project returns on the eve of International Women’s Day with a very special symposium exploring diversity in the art world and the future of curation.
We invite you to join us at Tate Modern for an evening Read More
TIME reached out globally to the most acclaimed female photojournalists, curators and directors of photography in the industry, asking them to select one female photojournalist that they believe is worthy of recognition. The result is an astonishing collection of brilliant work from around the world. For me, Read More
This course has been set up by Katy Deepwell, editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal.
This course is for anyone interested in studying art and feminism.
It is suitable for anyone, 16 to 90 years of age.
You can register at any time.Curiosity – and very basic computer skills – are required.
You may already be an Read More
Explore parallels between the work of French Surrealist Claude Cahun and Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing, brought together for the first time in this new exhibition.
Though born seventy years apart, both artists share a fascination with the self-portrait and use the self-image, through the medium of photography, to explore themes around Read More
The London-based artist and reader in Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art Rut Blees Luxemburg discusses her large-scale photographic works, which concern the phenomenon of the urban and representation of the city.
This event is part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s talk series Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography, which provides a platform for leading contemporary photographers Read More
“Building Resilience: Dialogue, Collaboration and Partnerships across Our Differences”
Colombo, Sri Lanka
On Images yet to be Seen. A Cameroonian case study
by Christine Eyene
“…It is with this in mind that one should approach contemporary photography in Cameroon and its relationship to new modes of dissemination. The emergence of Cameroonian photography can be traced back to the early 1930s with studios such as the notable Photo George in Read More
This day-long event offers a platform to consider the position of women in the art world and address questions of inclusion and diversity, especially in relation to museum collections.
Speakers include Iwona Blazwick (Director Whitechapel Gallery), Susan Fisher Sterling (Director National Museum for Women in the Arts), Ann Gallagher (Director of Collections, Tate), and collectors Valeria Napoleone and Floriane de Saint Pierre.
Organised in Read More
The Moon and a Smile
Greta Alfaro, Anna Fox, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Neeta Madahar & Melanie Rose, Sharon Morris, Sophy Rickett, Helen Sear, Patricia Ziad
4 March – 23 April 2017
The Moon and a Smile responds to a period in the 1840s and 1850s, when Swansea was at the centre of early experiments in photography worldwide. In Read More
With a myriad of creative possibilities and inspiration, The Photography Show is a haven for every photographer, no matter what stage of your photography journey you’re at.
Join UCA’s Women in Photography at the show on 18-21 March at the NEC Birmingham to find out more about their projects and browse the Read More
Starts 22 June 2017 – 18:00
Finishes 24 June 2017 – 20:00
Birkbeck, University of London
Feminist Emergency
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in collaboration Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS), the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the British Comparative Literature Association.
This major international feminist Conference emerges out of a shared sense that feminism Read More
Joy Gregory is one of the major artists to emerge from the Black British photography movement of the 1980s; a time when debates around the domain of representation were explored and challenged. Gregory’s work is influenced by a combination of race, history, gender and aesthetics; firmly rooted in concepts of ‘truth and beauty’.
Read More
Member Led Event – The Body Up North with Natalie Wardle
27 April 2017, 19:00 to 20:30
Photographic artist and Redeye member Natalie Wardle hosts an evening with young and talented Northern photographers whose work looks at the human form in visual art and performance. Speaking alongside Natalie will be Manchester-based artists Ruby Robinson and Ellen Moss.
The Read More
Organised by Brighton Women’s Centre, in association with Brighton Dome
Saturday 4th March, 12pm – 1.30pm
The Old Courtroom, 118 Church St, Brighton BN1 1UD
(opposite Brighton Dome Concert Hall)
Join renowned photographers Marilyn Stafford and Nina Emett as they each present a selection of photographs from their work based on the theme of women, hosted Read More
Female Photographers Matter Now More Than Ever
by Laura Mallonee
“Zalcman just launched Women Photograph, a website featuring more than 400 (and counting) female photojournalists from 67 countries. “We need to make a better effort to find female photographers and photographers of color,” she say. “Because they exist. They’re there.”.[…] WIRED talked to Zalcman about her website, her experiences, Read More
How the art world airbrushed female artists from history
by Hannan Ellis-Petersen
“Figures compiled by the Guardian paint a dismal portrait of women artists exhibiting in major galleries, in the UK and abroad. But are things changing?…
…It is important to understand the impact this bias has had on the art world. These galleries, with outposts across America Read More
Talkin’ ’bout my Generation
Sue Hubbard
“Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, from the Verbund Collection at The Photographers’ Gallery, 7 October to 15 January 2017
The day after the American election that put Donald J. Trump in the White House and the morning I heard of Leonard Cohen’s death, I went to the exhibition of 1970s feminist avant-garde Read More
“Radical Women” of Latin American Art Get the Museum Show They Deserve
“Co-curated by Dr. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Dr. Andrea Giunta, “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985” at the Hammer Museum will ask visitors to reconsider the heavily male art history they know and recognize the importance of female artists often working under the Read More
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery is a biannual award established in 2005.
It is the only visual art prize for women in the UK and aims to promote and nurture female artists, enabling them to develop their potential with the gift of time and space.
The winner is awarded Read More
Terrains of the Body:
Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, U.S.), this collection display showcases photography and video work by seventeen contemporary artists from around the world.
By turning their camera to women, including themselves, these artists embrace the female body as Read More
“Today, women make up the majority of students in undergraduate and graduate photojournalism programs. The top photo editors of National Geographic, Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times and many other American publications are female, as are many if not most of their subordinates. There are, by most accounts, a large number of outstanding Read More
Thursday 27 April 2017, 6:00-7:30
Room 106
Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia)
Photographing Tutankhamun: Photo-objects and the archival afterlives of colonial archaeology
Patrizia Di Bello (Dr),
Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Photography
Birkbeck, University of London,
www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history
As part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival and International Women’s Day, new exhibition HATCHED 2017 will showcase work by local and global artists on the theme of women’s issues.
Exhibition: 22 February to 11 March 2017
at the North Wall Gallery, Oxford
Private View with Maga Esberg’s It (‘s a) girl!performance:
Friday 24th of February 6.30-8.30pm
Performance starts at 7pm.
Using Read More
Catherine Opie: A World Beyond Selfies
“I was never an optimist in thinking that my images would change laws. But I certainly thought that I would be able to create a history.” Catherine Opie, photographer of minority groups and subcultures, can be both political and very internal.
The video can be watched here.
Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change
January 27–May 7, 2017
Curators’ talk: February 8, 6:30–8:30pm
International Center of Photography
250 Bowery
New York, New York 10012
USA
The International Center of Photography (ICP), the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, kicks off 2017—its designated Read More
Private Art Collections: At home with Photography expert Zelda Cheatle.
Read or/and watch the interview here.
He only feels the black and white of it, Berlin Wall 14-07-73 is published by Mörel Books.
Steffi Klenz places a sequence of a 1973 archive press-photograph at the centre: a photograph of a damaged section of the Berlin Wall. The Image pictures East German military guards and border policemen carrying out repair works at the wall. Read More
The female street photographers of Instagram – in pictures
by Francesca Perry
“The art of street photography was long dominated by men and the ‘male gaze’, but new project Her Side of the Street celebrates women’s role in the practice… Last year, American photographer Casey Meshbesher felt compelled to create a compendium of street photography by women Read More
A tribute to female flâneurs: the women who reclaimed our city streets
by Lauren Elkin
“The flâneur – the keen-eyed stroller who chronicles the minutiae of city life – has long been seen as a man’s role. From Virginia Woolf to Martha Gellhorn, it’s time we recognised the vital, transgressive work of the flâneuse…. It’s time to recognise Read More
The Lure of the Archive
Falmouth University Photography Symposium
At the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
4 March, 2017
10am – 5pm
To coincide with the launch of the exhibition The Moon and a Smile – eight new artist commissions responding to the photographs of the Dillwyn Llewelyn family in mid 19th century Swansea – Falmouth University hosts a Read More
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/01/20/article/159934571/on-feminism-the-winter-issue-of-aperture/
“The winter issue of Aperture, “On Feminism,” arrives at a moment when the power and influence women hold on the world stage is irrefutable, and the very idea of gender is central to conversations about equality across the country, and around the globe. “On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography Read More
Moose on the Loose 2017 Biennale of Research:
Transformations, Collaborations
Exhibitions Talks Archives Films Publications Commissions Classes Book Launch Lectures Meetings Conversations Explorations Food
February-March, 2017
Moose 2017 includes exhibitions, a new film festival, book launch, LGBTQ+ zines, studio visits, workshops and demonstrations, plus the second iteration of Shadows –exploring the use of analogue photography by contemporary artists, and Read More
FIX Photo Festival 2017
12 – 21 May: Free Entry
FIX Photo Festival – An annual celebration of consummate photography in all its forms.
In this, the second year of the festival, FIX Photo is curated in response to the consequences of the dramatic political shifts of 2016. Exhibiting artists will issue a positive challenge to the Read More
LABOURS OF LOVE: WOMEN’S LABOUR AS THE CULTURE SECTOR’S INVISIBLE DARK MATTER
by Macushla Robinson
“In the past three decades, housework, care work and other forms of gendered labour have become the focus of first-world feminist attention. The economic unit of the family is the site of the accumulation of capital. Dividing labour along gender lines within filial Read More
In October 2016 a network camera was installed on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem looking east across the West Bank towards the Jordanian Mountains.
The camera is constructing images pixel by pixel, line by line from the top left to the bottom right hand corner of the frame so that each complete image represents just Read More
Exhibition Laboratory
Merimiehenkatu 36
Helsinki
Finland
The KuvA Research Days discuss artistic research across the disciplines
The Research Days of the Academy of Fine Arts (KuvA) are held from December 12 to December 14 in Helsinki, Finland. The themes explored in this public event include death, the role of the artist-researcher in society and in science, and archaeology as Read More
WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH?
An afternoon of presentations and conversations emerging from the themes of the inaugural UAL Photography Research Exhibition at Camberwell Space Projects.
Chaired by Anne Williams and Duncan Wooldridge
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Helen Westgeest
Photographic research as comparative interrogation of visual mediation in fine arts and everyday life
Dr. Westgeest is Assistant Professor of Modern and Read More
“Once in a while an artistic practice emerges that challenges viewers in new ways that cut through the noise, and offers something both deeply familiar and at the same time utterly new. Collaborative, creative, and experimental, Gill and Vangad, in Fields of Sight, provide a new language for art practices that address the politics and Read More
Something to get off your chest? Conspire with Guerrilla Girls and speak your mind
The Guerrilla Girls operate a Complaints Department in Tate Exchange, inviting individuals and organisations to come and conspire with the Girls, post complaints about art, culture, politics, the environment, or any other issue they care about. Encouragement and some materials will be provided Read More
Le donne fotografe dalla nascita della fotografia ad oggi: uno sguardo di genere / Women photographers from the beginning of photography up to now: a gender insight
crowd funding project
Strive Market
As part of the Strive Festival we will have a Market in the Royal Festival Hall. It is an opportunity to share the diverse creativity, skills and innovation of young people and of course sell your creations!
We are offering (Free) stalls to talented young people (15-30) who create/design/ make their own work. This could range from Read More
STEFFI KLENZ
He only feels the black and white of it:
Berlin Wall 14-07-1973
BOOK LAUNCH – TUESDAY, 21st June
The Heights Bar, 15th Floor
Saint Georges Hotel 14-15 Langham Place, Regent Street, London W1B 2QS
MOREL BOOKS
INSPIRING FILMS ABOUT WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Here are three films about women photographers that all aspiring photographers must watch. Filmed in different settings and time, these films take us through the journey of women who break norms and stereotypes to find their voice through the lens. The films showcase their artistic pursuits, personal struggles and social concerns, Read More
Free and open to all at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1, unless otherwise specified
Thursday 9 June 2016, 6-7:30 pm
Room 112
Luke Gartlan (University of St. Andrews, History of Photography journal)
Before ‘White Australia’: The Singleton Family Photo Albums and Early Australian-Japanese Relations
Patrizia Di Bello (Dr),
Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Photography
Birkbeck, University of London,
www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history
Tate Britain, Clore Studio
Saturday 18 June 2016, 17.00–18.30
Coinciding with the Jo Spence display, artist Rose Gibbs leads a discussion drawing on the legacy of the Hackney Flashers and women’s arts collectives, past and present, considering their work in relation to women and feminised labour.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s there were an abundance of collective activities and Read More
Tate Britain, Clore Studio
Saturday 18 June 2016, 17.00–18.30
Coinciding with the Jo Spence display, artist Rose Gibbs leads a discussion drawing on the legacy of the Hackney Flashers and women’s arts collectives, past and present, considering their work in relation to women and feminised labour.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s there were an abundance of collective activities and Read More
some interesting women in this talks collection
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/creating-value-around-women-artists-the-chief-curator-s-view/
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/06/underexposed-the-forgotten-female-pioneers-of-photography
MUST SEE AT TATE BRITAIN
Painting with Light:
Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age
11 May – 25 September 2016
This spring, Tate Britain will uncover the dynamic dialogue between British painters and photographers; from the birth of the modern medium to the blossoming of art photography. Spanning over 70 years, the exhibition will bring Read More
Project aim
Photofusion is gravely threatened by rising rent. Photofusion means something special both to creativity in London, and to the community in Brixton. We are gravely threatened by a combination of falling funding and rising rent. Please help us to move, survive, and carry on doing great work!
Photofusion is a hub for photography that has Read More
Organised by FOTONOW CIC and Knowle West Media Centre
THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ARTIST, ACTIVIST, INNOVATOR?
Wednesday, April 27th 6-8pm
Leinster Avenue, Bristol BS4 1NL
Panel Discussion with Amak Mahmoodian, Maria Kapajeva, David Partner, Andrew Jackson
Portfolio Reviews: booking is essential at thephotographer.eventbrite.co.uk
Saturday 21 May, 2.00pm to 3.30pm.
Malcolm Dickson, co-curator of Passion, will discuss Maud Sulter’s work with artist Marlene Smith, a key figure in the British black arts movement. Followed by refreshments.
Free event, booking advised.
Now in its seventh edition, NPS 2016 is organised this year in partnership with FORMAT International Photography Festival off year and QUAD. It explores three main themes: new online photographic communities that are revolutionising learning and showing of work; the challenges of making – and forgetting – visual history in an age when everything is Read More
The Photography Show open now is the UK’s largest event dedicated to photography, it offers a great opportunity for you to try (and buy!) some of the latest kit, get advice and inspiration from some of the best in the business and meet potential business partners.
Pro Day is on Monday, 21 March and in the Read More
FORMAT Photoforum
QUAD
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby DE1 3AS
Thursday 12th May, 2016
18:30 – 20:30
£ 5 (£4)
We invite you to share your work and gain valuable advice and guidance from photographer, author and teacher, Paul Hill MBE in this Open Session. These open sessions are great opportunities to ‘expose yourself’ in front of an informed audience of fellow Read More
This is a wonderful publisher but out of nearly 40 books on the site only 2 are by a woman – the same woman
the wonderful Trish Porter
http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/?tx=4JG67517UH0031919&st=Completed&amt=9%2e45&cc=GBP&cm=&item_number=
I suggest we all try to get published here
The National Photography Symposium is the UK’s leading gathering place for ideas and discussion around photography. Now in its seventh edition, NPS 2016 explores two main themes: new online photographic communities that are revolutionising learning and showing of work; and the challenges of making – and forgetting – visual history in an age when everything is Read More
Photoforum
Four Corners Film Spring Photoforum presents the work of four women photographers
Thursday 17 March, 6.30-8.30pm
Lisa Byrne, Maria Kapajeva, Mira Loew, and Fiona Yaron-Field will show and discuss their work in relation to current feminist debates. This event is part of Women’s History Month in East London
RSVP on the provided link.
Free and open to all, note the change of address for the next event
Wednesday 9 March 2016 – 6-7:30
*Clore Lecture Theater, Clore management Centre, Torrington Square (opposite main building), WC1E 7JL
Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University & Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities)
Picturing Modernization: Vision, Modernity and the Technological Image in Humphrey Jennings’ Pandaemonium
Humphrey Jennings’ Pandaemonium: Coming Read More
Juno Calypso and Felicity Hammond, winners of this year’s British Journal of Photography International Awards are exhibiting their work right now.
It is the second year that the gallery are hosting the awards, and the 10th year of the awards itself. Do hope you will be able to join us. The exhibition will be on until Read More
http://www.recyclart.be/fr/agenda/extra-fort-nick-hannes-maria-kapajeva
bar 19:30
doors 20:15 €3
projection / projectie 20:30
Rue des Ursulines 25
1000 Bruxelles
Accès
Les soirées « extra fort » sont des soirées photographiques corsées pour ceux qui aiment les images. Des photographes présentent et échangent avec vous autour de leur travail, les influences qui les ont accompagnés dans leur démarche, les projets connus mais aussi méconnus. Read More
History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
Free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, unless otherwise specified
Wednesday 17 February 2016, 6-7:30 pm
Room B04
Linda Mulcahy (London School of Economics)
Docile Suffragettes? Resistance to Police Photography
Seminal accounts of the history of photography commonly draw attention to the mugshot as the archetypal documentary visual record Read More
KEN. TO BE DESTROYED. A new publication from Sara Davidmann
Edited by Val Williams
Published by Schilt, Amsterdam.
Ken.To be destroyed began with an archive and a discovery. Sara Davidmann and her siblings inherited letters and photographs belonging to their uncle and aunt, Ken and Hazel Houston, from their mother Audrey Davidmann. The letters Read More
La Toya Ruby Frazier – this video is fascinating – she has just won a major MacArthur grand and has a new book out with Aperture
http://aperture.org/shop/latoya-ruby-frazier-the-notion-of-family-books
Free and open to all, at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Room 112
Monica Bohm-Duchen in conversation with Dorothy Bohm
About Women: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm
This is Dorothy Bohm’s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. Taken throughout the world, from the late 1940s until the present day, her photographs range from images of Read More
>³One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,² and there were those,
>who became a woman long before the famous quote of Simone de Beauvoir
>was said out loud in 1949 and who left their footprint, seen or hidden,
>praised or still unrecognized. Last couple of decades have seen a
>radical transformation in the ways of recreation, assimilation,
>dispersion Read More
STUDY DAY: This study day will explore a century of outstanding contributions to photography by women. Inspired by the current Julia Margaret Cameron Display, academics, curators and writers will explore Women’s contribution to a genres including, fine art, fashion, war and political photographs.
year three photography students from Coventry University have organised:
The INSITE symposium will be a forum in which individual research
projects will be presented, examining a variety of issues relating
to photographic practice and visual representation in the 21st
century. 36 speakers will form a programme taking place over two
days, on the 3rd and the 4th of February from Read More
http://www.lianzhoufoto.com/exhibition.aspx
read this interesting review about three Chinese photographers includes two women
Wei Leng Tay
Huang Dongli
Found this interesting
http://www.baxterst.org/2015/09/27/day-in-ellis-island-1951-unpublished-portfolio-by-erika-stone/
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, September 7 – 08, 2016
Museums and Galleries History Group Biennial Conference
Gendering Museum Histories
This conference addresses the relationship between museums, galleries
and gender during the last 400 years. Museums can be understood as
buildings, institutions, collections, displays, interpretations and
groups of people; each of these aspects has both reflected and shaped
ideas about gender and its construction Read More
Archives Matter: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters
This conference will take place on the 3rd of June 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London and is hosted by the Centre for Feminist Research.
Archives matter. Archives are bound up with the question of whose history is worth preserving. Scholars in postcolonial and decolonial studies have broadened our understanding Read More
Tuesday 26 January 2016, 6-8 pm
Keynes Library
Marta Weiss (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Julia Margaret Cameron: New Discoveries
Responding: Colin Ford (Former head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford)
This seminar will explore new material Martha Weiss discovered while researching the current must-see exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, marking the bicentenary of Read More
Wednesday 20th April – Friday 22nd April 2016, QUAD Derby
Redeye is partnering with Format and Flâneur, Procurate for the return of the UK’s largest portfolio review and The National Photography Symposium in April next year. Keep your diaries free to meet and hear from 30+ international photography experts at this not-to-be-missed networking event. Featuring professional practice talks by industry experts, major awards Read More
Redeye will be hosting a day of events at The Photography Show in 2016. Redeye will be running a day of activities on Tuesday 22nd March including quick-fire talks from contemporary photographers, workshops on professional practice, and advice on presenting your work.
The Redeye Team
facebook.com/redeyephotographynetwork
@redeyenetwork
www.redeye.org.uk
Shadow Sites II will be screened at the ICA on Tuesday evening in A Cosmonaut’s Trip, a programme which examines the role of space exploration in experimental film, featuring archive footage by pioneers of early cinema alongside animation and contemporary artists’ moving image works:
Photoworks speak to self-proclaimed ‘photographic archaeologist’ Eva Stenram about the ideas and processes behind her practice and her use of found imagery.
http://photoworks.org.uk/interview-eva-stenram/
Saatchi Gallery
14th January, 19:00 (Doors open 18:30)
We’re kicking off the year with a screening to celebrate
Saatchi Gallery‘s 30th birthday and the opening of their
first ever all-women show on 14th January.
The exhibition, titled Champagne Life, features 14 artists
including Mirrors to Windows artist Alice Anderson.
Followed by Q&A with director Susan Steinberg.
University of Oxford is pleased to announce a two-day conference on ‘Women and the Canon’ to be held at Christ Church (University of Oxford) on 22-23 January 2016.
“This conference seeks to problematize received notions of canonicity, and therefore of artistic and intellectual authority, by approaching them through their relationship to gender. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Read More
OBJEKTIV#12
Objektiv #12 is inspired by, and will be launched during the conference Fast Forward: Women in Photography at Tate Modern in November, 2015. Keen to contribute to this initiative, we have singled out three women whom we would like to fast forward into the light: B. Ingrid Olson, Marie Svindt and Lieko Shiga. Photographer and writer Read More
The latest issue of Photoworks Annual looks at women and their roles in photography, as subjects, creators and consumers. The new writing, new photography and powerful archival images presented in Issue 22, connect wider ideas surrounding the subject and share important recent shifts affecting women and photography today.
http://photoworks.org.uk/project-news/photoworks-annual-issue-22/
Ha Ouch Ha Ouch Ha Ouch: On Women and Wit in Photography.
Article by Max Houghton.
Max Houghton weaves a historical and contemporary view through photograph and women photographers who use wit to disarm.
http://photoworks.org.uk/ha-ouch-ha-ouch-ha-ouch-women-wit-photography/
Issue Five
What makes a particular site ‘home’? Is it where our roots begin, or is it fluid and changing, existing as an unfixed place of comfort? Curated by Talia Smith, Issue Five of Common Ground brings together diverse works and words by women artists and writers to determine if home really is where the heart is.
Artists:
Rachael Ireland
Delena Nathuran
Ann Read More
Following a very successful 2015, we would like to thank you for your continued support and formally announce that Photobook Bristol will return to the SouthBank Club, Bristol on the 10th-12th June 2016. We have confirmed some fantastic speakers already, including Ken Grant, Mark Power, David Solo, Laura El-Tantawy, Amak Mahmoodian, Dragan Jurasic, Martin Parr, Read More
About Women is Dorothy Bohm’s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. Taken throughout the world, from the late 1940s until the present day, her photographs range from images of ordinary women going about their everyday activities, to explorations of the role that representations of women, in the form of advertisements, posters Read More
London Art Fair has built up a strong reputation for photography within the Main Fair, Art Projects and Photo50.
Photography Focus Day takes place at London Art Fair on Wednesday 20 January, with talks and tours on this day examining contemporary photographic practice.
All events are free to attend with a valid Fair ticket or invitation and take place in Read More
A very interesting read from Dazed.
A very interesting read from Onward.
Gerry Badger, Lara Clifton, Julie Cook, Paul Davies, Dr Nerys Mathias meet to discuss issues related to the body and Julie Cooks exhibition – Sightlines: Public and Private (Lives). There will also be a special performance by Blanche Dubois.
Lunch and drinks included
There is a ticket line number and a box office number (Box Office is open only Read More
Chair: Dr Michael Pritchard
Registration: 10.30
Start: 11am – 4.30
National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ
Tel: 01225325733
To coincide with the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron, The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with the National Media Museum and the University of Westminster presents a day of lectures that celebrate women in photography from both Read More
This two-day conference explores the complex and dynamic evolution of the history of women in photography, from early commercial practices, to the impact of World War II on women and their work, to reframing the role of the archive.
Considering both national and international discussions about women in the history of photography, this event Read More
This panel launches a new research initiative on women and photography at UCA Farnham and brings together an international line up of photographers and curators to discuss key questions emerging from the work of women photographers today. Fast Forward: Women and Photography is a precursor to a larger international symposium taking place in 2015.
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