Description
From Local to Global: Feminist Activism and Documentary Photography:This panel aims to gather scholars, artists, curators and activists to shed fresh light on researching, archiving, exhibiting and disseminating feminist photography, provoking reassessment and revalidation of feminist social documentary work since the 1970s in its local, transnational and global contexts. While the power imbalances of documentary photography have been rigorously critiqued since this decade, many feminist practitioners have remained invested in the social and activist capacities of the documentary form. This panel seeks to build on ongoing reassessment of documentary photography in relation to intersectional feminist debates and transnational frameworks. It particularly welcomes papers which investigate the relevance of feminist documentary practice to contemporary transnational struggles and questions of solidarity; gendered inequalities and divisions of labour; systems of support and regulation; cultural and ethnic diversity; LGBTQ+ activism; and women’s interregional connections and disparities.
This panel follows on from the major exhibition in Newcastle at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works (2024-25). From her base in Edinburgh, Raffles pursued projects in China, the Philippines, Tibet, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, addressing women’s working conditions, pay, health, care, housing, disability and education. Alongside research papers, the panel will include a roundtable discussion, and two Ignite talks led by artists and activists engaging with documentary practice, including but not limited to the issues addressed by Raffles’ work.
| Period | 12 Apr 2025 |
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| Event title | Association for Art History Annual Conference 2025 |
| Event type | Conference |