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Roxana Savin challenges domestic ideals, and the pressure to conform to gendered expectations

Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2012, Savin and her family relocated to a gated expatriate community in Russia. Her latest photobook visualises the loss of self she experienced during this shift into a heavily gendered society

Marvel Harris wins MACK First Book Award 2021

Reading Time: < 1 minute Inner Journey is a raw and introspective portrayal of Harris’ experience as an autistic, non-binary, transgender artist, tracing their struggles with mental illness, self-love and gender identity

Oleg Ponomarev shares the experiences of transgender men and women in Russia

Reading Time: 5 minutes In a country where identifying as LGBTQ+ can threaten your existence, the openness with which Ponomarev’s participants share their stories carves a path for others to do the same

Female in Focus: Joanna Milter on championing a gender-equal photography industry

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Director of Photography at The New Yorker and Female in Focus 2021 judge discusses the importance of women’s perspectives on the world, and what she’s hoping to see in this year’s award entries

The women photographers bringing nuance to the way COVID-19 is being covered

Reading Time: 5 minutes “The pandemic has exposed once more the functioning of patriarchy, and the precariousness of women’s lives in many places — especially in so-called ‘third-world’ countries”