From the latest chapter of Laia Abril’s long-term project A History of Misogyny to Rachel Papo’s collaborative exploration of pregnancy and motherhood, we round up the publications not to miss
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A new exhibition at the MOCP in Chicago raises questions of women’s agency over their bodies in the present day
Coco Capitán, Laia Abril, Roger Ballen, Joshua Lutz, and Bex Day, respond to the theme the mind for Mental Health Awareness week 2020 — the next article in a new series inviting artists to respond to a theme with image and text
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we share a selection of projects that explore some of the many issues that surround mental health disorders
As a gift to our community during the coronavirus lockdown, we are offering our Female Gaze issue as a free digital edition
Abril wins the prestigious prize for her long term project highlighting stigmatised issues The History of Misogyny
A violent attack in Spain galvanised Laia Abril to begin the next episode in her project highlighting stigmatised issues
Sophie Calle, Laia Abril, Collier Schorr, and BJP editor Simon Bainbridge are among this year’s winners
The shortlists are out for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards and the result for the photobook prize is striking: this year, all three shortlisted books are by women, with Laia Abril’s On Abortion (Dewi Lewis Publishing), Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph, and Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness by Zanele Muholi (Aperture) all making the grade.
But says chair of the Kraszna-Krausz, Brian Pomeroy, that fact shouldn’t stand out as remarkable. “We’ve had female winners before,” he says. “It just shows talent is equally distributed, and you wouldn’t expect anything else. There have been very strong female photographers since the beginning of photography, I don’t think it’s something new.”
Liz Jobey, associate editor of the FT Weekend Magazine and a member of the photobook jury along with Chrystel Lebas, photographer and Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Winner 2018, and Anne McNeill, director of the Impressions Gallery, agrees, adding that the jury wasn’t deliberately looking out for books by women. But, she says, it’s an interesting time in which photography – and society and culture more generally – is opening up to other perspectives, and that was naturally reflected in this year’s shortlist.
An architect for more than 40 years, Badger took up photography while studying in the mid 1960s, going on to exhibit at major institutions in Britain and the US. But he is best known as a writer, critic and bibliophile, contributing dozens of essays on the medium, and editing key texts such as The Photobook: A History