Reading Time: 3 minutes Spence’s previously unpublished thesis is the starting point for a new retrospective of her work
Gender & Sexuality
Reading Time: 4 minutes The career-spanning publication features the diversity of Opie’s subjects, including high school football players, mini-malls, protests, freeways and her family
Reading Time: 2 minutes Through the lenses of over 50 different photographers, New Queer Photography traverses a heady mix of identities, experiences, dynamics and aesthetics to counter “one-dimensional” perceptions of queerness
Reading Time: 2 minutes The photographer considers the complexities of gender and the transformation of the body, drawing on their Muy Thai training and study of the queer community
Reading Time: 4 minutes To coincide with Female in Focus 2021, Kateryna Radchenko, founder and curator of Ukraine’s only contemporary photography festival, discusses Ukrainian women’s contribution to the medium in the context of the country’s cultural and historical tensions
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
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
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
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
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”