ONLINE EVENT: An afternoon Symposium exploring issues around photography and resistance, from a feminist lens.
This Symposium brings together an international group of artists, writers and thinkers and is part of the exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance Through a Feminist Lens, which is currently on show at Four Corners gallery in East London.
Talks include:
- Professor Anna Rocca in conversation with Senior Lecturer Dora Carpenter-Latiri about her exhibition on Tunisian women, Tunisian Women of the Book.
- Julia Winckler, photographer and academic, on the work of Marilyn Stafford, whose street photographs of children in post-war Paris constitute precious fragments of an underrepresented working-class neighbourhood before being demolished in 1961.
- PhD student Gabriella McGrogan on resistance to the war on drugs in the Phillipines.
- Historian of photography, researcher and writer, Taous Dahmani on the visual culture of the 1976 Grunwick dispute in the UK.
- Tessa Lewin, creative practitioner and researcher, in conversation with South African photographer Dean Hutton.
- Associate Professor of Art History, Heather Diack on the work of Civil Rights photographer Doris Derby
- Feminist research artist, Rosario Montero on documentary photography in Chile
- Tara Pixley’s film, Rebel Vision, on the work of Black female and non binary photographers associated with Authority Collective.
This event is produced in collaboration with Kylie Thomas of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, editor of a special issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture journal published in Spring 2022.
